Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2025

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Ageing, make the following Determination.

Dated 3 November 2025

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Ageing

Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1—Indexation Amendments 2

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017 2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment (Indexation) Determination 2025.

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.

Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 10B(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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Indexation Amendments

Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Determination 2017

1  Paragraph 4(1)(b) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

2  Paragraph 4(2)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

1.     subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to items 11602, 11604, 11607, 11610, 18270, 18272, 30216, 30219, 14100, 30071, 31560, 32504, 34106, 42590, 43030, 43032, 43034, 43036, 43038, 43040, 45003, 45025, 45026, 45200, 45203, 45206, 45545, 45614, 45617, 45620, 45623, 45624 and 45652 of the general medical services table; and

3  Paragraph 4(3)(b) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

4  After subsection 4(3)

Insert:

 (3A) For section 10B of the Act:

 (a) subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to all items in Group A8 (except item 297) in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act; and

 (b) the maximum increase for each item is 300 percent of the Schedule fee for that item or $500.00 for that item whichever represents the lesser amount.

 (3B) For section 10B of the Act:

 (a) subsections 10ACA(7A) and 10ADA(8A) apply to all items in Group A15 (except item 880) in a determination made under subsection 3C(1) of the Act; and

 (b) the maximum increase for each item is 300 percent of the Schedule fee for that item or $500.00 for that item whichever represents the lesser amount.

5  Paragraph 4(5)(a)

Omit “items 13899”, substitute “item 13899”.

6  Paragraph 4(6)(b) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute: