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Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Amendment (Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive Services) Determination 2025

I, Louise Riley, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make the following determination.

Dated     10 September 2025 

Louise Riley

Assistant Secretary

MBS Policy and Reviews Branch

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

 

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

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

 

 

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Amendment (Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive Services) 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.  The whole of this instrument

Immediately after the commencement of the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 3) Regulations 2025.

1 November 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Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

amount under clause 2.1 has the meaning given by clause 2.1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2.

2  After Schedule 2 Part 2 (heading)

Insert:

2.1  Meaning of amount under clause 2.1

  In item 82206:

amount under clause 2.1 means 50% of the fee that would normally apply for item 82201 or 82202 if a service mentioned in the same item had not been discontinued before completion.

3  Schedule 2 (after item 82228)

Insert:

Subgroup 4 – Nurse practitioner procedures

82201

Introduction of an intra-uterine device for abnormal uterine bleeding or contraception or for endometrial protection during oestrogen replacement therapy

(Anaes.)

215.95

82202

Removal of etonogestrel subcutaneous implant

(Anaes.)

105.15

82203

Hormone or living tissue implantation by cannula

100.40

82204

A service rendered by a participating nurse practitioner to which item 82201, 82202 or 82203 applies, if the service is bulkbilled in relation to the fees for:

(a) that item; and

(b) any other item in Subgroup 1 of Group M14 or item 73832 and 73833 applying to the service

40% of the fee for the relevant item referred to in paragraph (a) of column 2

82206

A procedure, being a service to which an item in Subgroup 4 of Group M14 would have applied had the procedure not been discontinued on clinical grounds, other than a service to which 82203 applies

Amount under clause 2.1