EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
National Health Act 1953
National Health (Multiple Hospitals Paperless Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2012 (No.1)
PB 68 of 2012
Authority
Subsection 100(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) enables the Minister to make special arrangements for the supply of pharmaceutical benefits. Subsection 100(2) of the Act provides that the Minister may vary or revoke a special arrangement made under subsection 100(1).
Subsection 100(3) of the Act provides that Part VII of the Act, and instruments made for the purposes of Part VII of the Act have effect subject to a special arrangement made under subsection 100(1).
Purpose
The purpose of this Instrument, made under subsections 100(1) and 100(2) of the Act, is to amend the National Health (Multiple Hospitals Paperless Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2012 (PB 26 of 2012) (the Special Arrangement) to make changes to the special arrangement relating to the multiple hospitals paperless claiming trial. The Special Arrangement allows certain approved suppliers), which are approved pharmacists or approved hospital authorities, associated with certain private hospitals located within Victoria and specified in the Schedule of the Special Arrangement, to use a paperless claiming procedure to claim payment for each pharmaceutical benefit supplied.
The Trial allows prescribers to use electronic medication charts, instead of paper based prescriptions. The medication charts are prepared and signed by the prescribers involved in the trial.
The approved supplier supplies the pharmaceutical benefit using a paper copy of the medication chart and then submits a claim to the Chief Executive Medicare without a paper copy of the medication chart.
The approved supplier must then create an electronic record of the medication chart.
This Instrument makes changes to the Special Arrangement to update the names and addresses of the hospitals participating in the Special Arrangement and the names, addresses and approval numbers of the approved suppliers associated with the hospitals participating in the Special Arrangement.
Consultation
The changes made by this instrument are minor and mechanical in nature.
This Instrument commences on 1 September 2012.
This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.