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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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