Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2)1
Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 260
I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Dated 27 October 2010
QUENTIN BRYCE
Governor-General
By Her Excellency’s Command
NICOLA ROXON
Contents
1 Name of Regulations
2 Commencement
3 Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975
4 Services for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee — GMST items 709, 711 and 713
Schedule 1 Amendment commencing 1 May 2010
Schedule 2 Amendments commencing 1 November 2010
These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2).
These Regulations commence, or are taken to have commenced, as follows:
(a) on 1 May 2010 — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;
(b) on 1 November 2010 — regulation 4 and Schedule 2.
3 Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975
Schedules 1 and 2 amend the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.
4 Services for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee — GMST items 709, 711 and 713
(1) For paragraph 10 (2) (aa) of the Act, a service described in items 709, 711 and 713 of the general medical services table
is taken to have been prescribed from 1 July 2008 to 31 April 2010 (inclusive).
Note Items 709, 711 and 713:
(a) were inserted into the general medical services table by the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 2) which commenced on 1 July 2008; and
(b) were repealed by the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 3) which commenced on 1 May 2010.
(2) In this regulation:
Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Note The term general medical services table is defined in the Act.
Schedule 1 Amendment commencing 1 May 2010
(regulation 3)
[1] Schedule 6
substitute
Schedule 6 Services for which medicare benefit is 100% of Schedule fee
(regulation 6EF)
Item | Group | Item of the general medical services table |
1 | A1 | 3, 4, 20, 23, 24, 35, 36, 37, 43, 44, 47, 51 |
2 | A2 | 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 92, 93, 95, 96, |
3 | A5 | 160, 161, 162, 163, 164 |
4 | A6 | 170, 171, 172 |
5 | A7 | 173, 193, 195, 197, 199 |
6 | A11 | 597, 598, 599, 600 |
7 | A14 | 701, 703, 705, 707, 715 |
8 | A15 | 721, 723, 729, 731, 732, 735, 739, 743, 747, 750, 758 |
9 | A17 | 900, 903 |
10 | A18 | 2497, 2501, 2503, 2504, 2506, 2507, 2509, 2517, 2518, 2521, 2522, 2525, 2526, 2546, 2547, 2552, 2553, 2558, 2559 |
11 | A19 | 2598, 2600, 2603, 2606, 2610, 2613, 2616, 2620, 2622, 2624, 2631, 2633, 2635, 2664, 2666, 2668, 2673, 2675, 2677 |
12 | A20 | 2710, 2712, 2713, 2721, 2723, 2725, 2727 |
13 | A22 | 5000, 5003, 5010, 5020, 5023, 5028, 5040, 5043, 5049, 5060, 5063, 5067 |
14 | A23 | 5200, 5203, 5207, 5208, 5220, 5223, 5227, 5228, 5260, 5263, 5265, 5267 |
15 | A27 | 4001 |
16 | M12 | 10986, 10987, 10988, 10989, 10997 |
17 | M2 | 10993, 10994, 10995, 10996, 10998, 10999 |
Schedule 2 Amendments commencing 1 November 2010
(regulation 3)
[1] Subparagraph 6EF (b) (ii)
omit
rule 28 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2009
insert
clause 1.2.5 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations 2010
[2] Subregulation 13 (21)
omit
rule 61
insert
clause 2.43.4
Note
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