Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 5) Determination 2022
I, Travis Haslam, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.
Dated 12 December 2022
Travis Haslam
Acting First Assistant Secretary
Medical Benefits Division
Health Resourcing Group
Department of Health and Aged Care
Contents
1......... Name............................................................................................................................... 1
2......... Commencement............................................................................................................... 1
3......... Authority......................................................................................................................... 1
4......... Schedules......................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1— Extension of COVID-19 services 2
Health Insurance (General Practice COVID-19 Treatment) Determination 2022 2
Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020 2
Schedule 2—Amendments pathology COVID-19 services 3
Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020 3
1 Name
This instrument is the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 5) Determination 2022.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 4 and Schedule 1 | 31 December 2022. | |
| 2. Schedule 2 | 1 January 2023. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Extension of COVID-19 services
Health Insurance (General Practice COVID-19 Treatment) Determination 2022
1 Section 4
Omit “31 December 2022”, substitute “31 December 2023”.
Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020
2 Section 3
Omit “31 December 2022”, substitute “31 December 2023”.
Schedule 2—Amendments to pathology COVID-19 services
Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – COVID‑19) Determination 2020
1 Schedule 1 (items 69506, 69507, 69511 and 69512, column 2, paragraph (a))
Omit “and the fee charged for the service does not exceed the schedule fee”.