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Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2025

I, Louise Riley, delegate of the Minister of Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated         1 May 2025

Louise Riley

Assistant Secretary

MBS Policy and Reviews Branch

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

 

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Schedules................................................1

Schedule 1—Fee amendments 2

Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Determination 2020 2

Schedule 2—Amendments 3

Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Determination 2020 3

 

 

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2025.

  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.  Section 1 to 4 and Schedule 1

Immediately after this instrument is registered.

 

2. Schedule 2

1 July 2025.

1 July 2025

Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

  1.     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.

  This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

1  Schedule 1 (cell at item 82110, column 3)

Omit “55.55”, substitute “84.70”.

2  Schedule 1 (cell at item 82135, column 3)

Omit “81.70”, substitute “124.50”.
 


1  Schedule 1 (item 82104, column 2)

After “minutes”, insert “, within 6 weeks after birth”.

2  Schedule 1 (cell at item 82140, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

 

Postnatal professional attendance by a participating midwife on a patient, not less than 4 weeks but not more than 8 weeks after birth of a baby, lasting at least 60 minutes, including all of the following:

 (a) a comprehensive examination of the patient and baby to ensure normal postnatal recovery;

 (b) a labour and birth debrief;

 (c) a mental health assessment or where the patient declines a mental health assessment, the participating midwife records the patient’s decision in the clinical notes;

 (d) referral of the patient to a primary carer for the ongoing care of the patient and baby or where the patient declines a referral to a primary carer, the participating midwife records the patient’s decision in the clinical notes

Payable only once per pregnancy