COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
National Health Act 1953
PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS
DETERMINATION UNDER SUBSECTION 99 (4)
I, DAVID TREVOR GRAHAM, Assistant Secretary, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch, Depart-
ment of Health and Family Services and Delegate of the Minister for Health and Family Services, pursuant to subsection 99 (4) of the National Health Act 1953, hereby make the following Determination:
1. This Determination shall come into operation on 1 August 1996.
2. The Determination under subsection 99 (4) of the National Health Act 1953 in respect of approved private hospitals made on 18 July 1991 with effect from 1 August 1991 is hereby revoked.
3. For the purpose of this Determination “patient” means either an in-patient, being a person occupying a bed for the purpose of hospital treatment including a newly-born child, or an
out-patient, being a person who is registered for medical treatment at the hospital without being admitted to occupy a bed in the hospital.
4. Payment by the Commonwealth to an approved hospital authority in respect of the supply of
a pharmaceutical benefit to a patient receiving treatment in or at a private hospital in respect
of which the hospital authority is approved shall be at the rate of the Commonwealth price ascertained in accordance with the determination under paragraph 98B (1) (a) of the
National Health Act 1953 which is in force when the benefit is supplied.
5. Payment by the Commonwealth to an approved hospital authority in respect of the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit to a patient receiving treatment in or at a private hospital in respect of which the hospital authority is approved shall, as far as applicable, be subject to the same conditions as those which would apply to the supply of the benefit by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner, in accordance with the determination under paragraph 98C (1) (b) of the National Health Act 1953 which is in force when the benefit is supplied.
Dated this sixteenth day of July 1996.
Signed D. Graham
D. GRAHAM
Assistant Secretary
Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch
Department of Health and Family Services
Delegate of the Minister for Health and Family Services