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Health (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005

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Health (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005

I, the Administrator in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Health Act 1997 .

22 June 2005

E. C. CRAWFORD

Administrator

By His Excellency's Command,

D. E. LLEWELLYN

Minister for Health and Human Services

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Health (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2005 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on 1 July 2005.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Health (Fees) Regulations 1997 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Schedule 1 amended (Fees payable for non-nursing home care in public hospitals)

Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended as follows:
(a) by omitting Part 1 and substituting the following Part:
PART 1 - In-patients

Item

Accommodation or service provided

Fee

  

Shared ward (each day)

Single ward (each day)

1. 

In respect of a private patient who is –

  
 

(a) an advanced surgical patient –

  
 

the first 14 days

$316

$475

 

each subsequent day

$219

$373

 

(b) a surgical/obstetric patient –

  
 

the first 14 days

$292

$455

 

each subsequent day

$219

$373

 

(c) a psychiatric patient –

  
 

the first 42 days

$292

$455

 

the next 23 days

$254

$408

 

each subsequent day

$219

$373

 

(d) a rehabilitation patient –

  
 

the first 49 days

$292

$455

 

the next 16 days

$254

$408

 

each subsequent day

$219

$373

 

(e) a same-day patient –

  
 

Band 1: Gastro-intestinal endoscopy, certain minor surgical items and non-surgical procedures that do not normally require an anaesthetic

$183

.....

 

Band 2: Procedures (other than Band 1) carried out under local anaesthetic, no sedation, if actual time in theatre is less than one hour

$218

.....

 

Band 3: Procedures (other than Band 1) carried out under general or regional anaesthesia or intravenous sedation, if actual time in theatre is less than one hour

$253

.....

 

Band 4: Procedures carried out under general or regional anaesthesia or intravenous sedation, if actual time in theatre is one hour or more

$292

.....

 

(f) any other patient –

  
 

the first 14 days

$254

$408

 

each subsequent day

$219

$373

2. 

In respect of an in-patient who is a compensable patient

$705

.....

3. 

In respect of a patient whose injury or disease is one for which the Defence Forces of the Commonwealth accept responsibility

$305

.....

4. 

In respect of a non-resident of Australia who is an ineligible person

$705

.....

5. 

In respect of a diagnostic imaging service rendered to a patient specified in Group 12 in Category 5 of the general medical services table

the Schedule fee  (in addition to any fee payable under items 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this Part)

(b) by omitting "$70" from column 3 of item 1 in Part 2 and substituting "$72";
(c) by omitting "$70" from column 3 of item 2 in Part 2 and substituting "$72".

5.    Schedule 2 amended (Fees payable for nursing home care in public hospitals)

Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting clause 1 and substituting the following clause:
1.   Interpretation
In this Schedule –
prescribed formula, in relation to the calculation of a payable fee, means –
(a) in the case of the patient contribution payable by all nursing-home type patients, the following formula:
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where –

"F"

is the fee rounded down to the nearest 5 cents;

"B"

is the daily equivalent of the maximum basic rate of age pension prescribed for the purposes of section 1064 of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth plus the maximum rate of rent assistance prescribed for the purposes of that section of that Act; and

(b) in the case of the default benefit payable by health funds on behalf of their privately insured contributors, the following formula:
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where –

"F"

is the fee rounded down to the nearest 5 cents;

"B"

is the daily equivalent of the maximum basic rate of age pension prescribed for the purposes of section 1064 of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth plus the maximum rate of rent assistance prescribed for the purposes of that section of that Act.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 29 June 2005

These regulations are administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Health (Fees) Regulations 1997 by –
(a) increasing certain fees payable for non-nursing home care in public hospitals; and
(b) prescribing the fee payable by health funds on behalf of their privately insured contributors for nursing home care in public hospitals.