EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Health Insurance Act 1973
Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2008
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Health and Ageing
Background
Subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the Minister or her delegate may, by writing, determine that a health service not listed in the general medical services table (the Table) shall, in specified circumstances and for specified statutory provisions, be treated as if it were so listed. The Table is set out in the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations which are remade each year.
A determination made under subsection 3C(1) is a legislative instrument (see subsection 3C(4) of the Act and paragraph 6(d) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003).
- Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination HS/02/2007
On 4 April 2007, the Minister for Health and Ageing made the Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination HS/02/2007 (the Previous Determination) under subsection 3C(1) of the Act, which permitted the payment of Medicare benefits in relation to specified intracytoplasmic sperm injection services for the purposes of assisted reproductive technologies for male factor infertility and sperm retrieval services for the purposes of intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
- Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2007
The Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2007 (the Determination) remade the Previous Determination and provided for an increase of 2.2 percent in the fees in respect of the services covered by the Determination. This fee increase was in line with the general fee increase that was applied to most services in the Table from 1 November 2007.
- Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2008
The Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2008 revokes the Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2007 as the services covered by the Determination will be moved into the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2008 which will commence on 1 November 2008.
Consultation
No consultation was undertaken in the making of the Determination as the instrument is machinery in nature and does not substantially alter existing arrangements.
ATTACHMENT
Notes on sections
Section 1
Section 1 provides for the name of the Determination.
Section 2
Section 2 provides that the Determination commences on 1 November 2008.
Section 3
Section 3 provides that the Determination revokes the Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination 2007.