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Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – General Practice Attendance for Assessing Patient Suitability for a COVID-19 Vaccine) Amendment (No. 5) Determination 2021

I, Nigel Murray, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated 22 December 2021

Nigel Murray

Assistant Secretary

MBS Policy and Specialist Services Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – General Practice Attendance for Assessing Patient Suitability for a COVID-19 Vaccine) Amendment (No. 5) Determination 2021.

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.  The whole of this instrument

23 December 2021

 

 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Amendments

Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – General Practice Attendance for Assessing Patient Suitability for a COVID19 Vaccine) Determination 2021

 

  1. Section 4 (after definition of after-hours period)

Insert::

booster dose, for any particular patient, means the third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

 

2.     Schedule (table, after item 10661)

Insert:

 

Subgroup 7—Management Support Service for a Booster Dose of a COVID-19 Vaccine

93666

A medical service associated with a service to which item 93644, 93645, 93646, 93647, 93653, 93654, 93655 or 93656 applies, if:

(a) the service is bulk-billed; and

(b) the service is for a patient being assessed for their suitability for the booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine

11.75