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Health Insurance (Section 3C Co-Dependent Pathology) Amendment (No. 3) Determination 2023

I, Mary Warner, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated 13 December 2023    

Mary Warner

Assistant Secretary

Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology Branch

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (Section 3C Co-Dependent Pathology Services) Determination 2018 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Co-Dependent Pathology) Amendment (No. 3) Determination 2023.

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

1 January 2024.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Co-Dependent Pathology Services) Determination 2018

1        Schedule 1 (after item 73306)

     Insert:

73307

A test of tumour tissue from a patient with advanced (FIGO III-IV), high-grade serous or other high-grade ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal carcinoma, requested by a specialist or consultant physician, if the test is:

(a)    to determine eligibility with respect to homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) status, including BRCA1 or BRCA2 status, to provide access to poly (adenosine diphosphate [ADP]-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor therapy under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; and

(b)    including a service described in item 73301

Applicable once per primary tumour diagnosis

3,000.00