Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation (Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2004 (WA)

4940 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 29 October 2001 .

WC301*

Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981

Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation

(Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations

(No. 2) 2004

and Gazette 9 January and 19 March 2004.]

Made by the Governor in Executive Council, on the recommendation of the Commission, under section 176(1a).

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Workers' Compensation and
Rehabilitation (Scales of Fees) Amendment Regulations
(No. 2) 2004.

2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Workers'
Compensation and Rehabilitation (Scales of Fees)
Regulations 1998*.

[* Reprinted as at 24 May 2002.

For amendments to 15 October 2004 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 4, p. 451,

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3.             Schedule 1 amended

Schedule 1 Part 1 is amended by deleting the heading
"GENERAL PRACTITIONER" and everything following that
heading down to, but not including, the heading
"PHYSICIANS, OCCUPATIONAL & REHABILITATION
PHYSICIANS" and inserting instead -

GENERAL PRACTITIONER

CONSULTATIONS Surgery Consultation in hours

Content based	$
Minor or Specific Service (Level A or B)	48.00
Extended Service (Level C)	87.70
Comprehensive Service (Level D)	134.75
Time based	$
up to 5 mins	28.60
more than 5 mins to 15 mins	37.40
more than 15 mins to 30 mins	72.00
more than 30 mins to 45 mins	108.90
more than 45 mins to 60 mins	147.70

Surgery Consultations

out of hours

For attendances between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. on a weekday or between 12 noon on Saturday and 8 a.m. on the following Monday. and Public Holiday.

Content based	$
Minor Service (Level A)	36.00

72.00

Specific Service (Level B)
Extended Service (Level C)	131.10
Comprehensive Service (Level D)	203.10
Time based	$
up to 5 mins	57.00
more than 5 mins to 15 mins	61.85
more than 15 mins to 30 mins	96.00
more than 30 mins to 45 mins	131.10

VISITS

Consultations at a olace other than the Consulting Rooms

in hours	$
Minor Service (Level A)	60.00
Specific Service (Level B)	82.15
Extended Service (Level C)	121.85
Comprehensive Service (Level D)	169.85

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out of hours

Minor Service (Level A)	72.00
Specific Service (Level B)	107.10
Extended Service (Level C)	164.30
Comprehensive Service (Level D)	240.00

TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS

Time based

up to 5 mins	16.05
more than 5 mins to 15 mins	20.05
more than 15 mins to 30 mins	41.95
more than 30 mins	62.90

CASE CONFERENCES, discussions with employers/insurers,

rehabilitation providers, workplace assessments etc.

per hour $180.55

TRAVELLING FEES

Outside the metropolitan area

Rate per kilometre $3.20

4.            Schedule 2 amended

Schedule 2 Part 1 is amended by deleting the figure set out in
column I of, and in the order in which it appears in, the Table to
this regulation and inserting instead the figure set out in
column 2 opposite that figure.

Table

Column 1	Column 2
Delete	Insert Instead
51.70	53.50
41.50	42.95

52.50	54.30
69.90	72.30
12.80	13.25
117.50	121.55
51.70	53.50

0.60 0.62

Recommended by the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation

Commission on the 21st day of September 2004.

The common seal of the

Workers' Compensation and )	L.S.
Rehabilitation Commission ) B. BRADLEY

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.