Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered Regulations(1) In this instrument:
"Act " means the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973 .
"Aged Care Act " means the Aged Care Act 1997 .
"Aged Care Department " means the Department administered by the Aged Care Minister.
"Aged Care Minister " means the Minister administering the Aged Care Act.
"Aged Care Secretary " means the Secretary of the Aged Care Department.
"Aged Care Transitional Act " means the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 .
"approved supplier " has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the National Health Act.
"client " means a person who received a hearing service for which a claim has been made.
"contracted service provider " has the meaning given by section 4 of the Hearing Services Administration Act 1997 .
"de-identified " has the meaning given by subsection 6(1) of the Privacy Act 1988 .
"disclosure function " has the meaning given by subsection 24(5).
"education and prevention functions " has the meaning given by subsection 24(3).
"emergency " means an emergency or disaster that occurs in Australia, or that affects one or more Australian citizens or permanent residents, and includes:
(a) an emergency or disaster that has been the subject of a declaration under section 80J or 80K of the Privacy Act 1988 ; and
(b) any circumstance in relation to which the Australian Government has decided that a program of special assistance involving the provision of a service, benefit, program or facility is to be implemented.
Note: Examples of an emergency include the following:
(a) a natural disaster;
(b) a terrorist act.
"evaluation and reporting functions " has the meaning given by subsection 24(7).
"healthcare providers " includes any of the following:
(a) medical practitioners;
(b) prescribers;
(c) pharmacists;
(d) approved suppliers;
(e) dentists;
(f) State and Territory health departments;
(g) State and Territory mental health authorities;
(h) private and public pain management clinics;
(i) private and public alcohol or drug detoxification centres;
(j) private and public hospitals.
"Health Department " means the Department administered by the Minister administering the National Health Act.
"Health Insurance Act " means the Health Insurance Act 1973 .
"hearing services " has the meaning given by section 4 of the Hearing Services Administration Act 1997 .
"identification and detection functions " has the meaning given by subsection 24(4).
"inappropriate practice " has the meaning given by section 81 of the Health Insurance Act.
"lifetime health cover " has the same meaning as in the Private Health Insurance Act.
"National Health Act " means the National Health Act 1953 .
"nominated prescriber " , in relation to a prescription shopper, means a prescriber nominated by the prescription shopper from time to time to be that person's main prescriber.
"PBS information " means information collected for the administration of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme established under Part VII of the National Health Act.
"person affected by an emergency " has a meaning affected by section 6.
"personal information " has the meaning given by subsection 6(1) of the Privacy Act 1988 .
"Pharmaceutical Benefits Regulations " means the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017 .
"prescriber " means a person who is authorised to prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit or who purports to be authorised to prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit.
"prescription shopper " means a person who, within any 3 month period, has had supplied to him or her:
(a) pharmaceutical benefits prescribed by 6 or more different prescribers (other than a prescriber who is a specialist within the meaning of subsection 3(1) of the Health Insurance Act and who has prescribed pharmaceutical benefits to a person in that capacity); or
(b) a total of 25 or more target pharmaceutical benefits; or
(c) a total of 50 or more pharmaceutical benefits.
"Prescription Shopping Program " means the program administered by the Department and the Health Department to reduce prescription shopping.
"Private Health Insurance Act " means the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 .
"reappraisal period " is the period under section 27-2 of the Aged Care Act in which a reappraisal of the classification of the level of care needed by an aged care recipient must be made.
"recoverable amount " has the meaning given by subsections 95-1(1) and 95-1(3) of the Aged Care Act.
"State or Territory body " means:
(a) a State or Territory Minister; or
(b) a Department of State of a State or Territory; or
(c) a body (whether incorporated or not) established for a public purpose under a law of a State or Territory.
"target pharmaceutical benefits " means pharmaceutical benefits in any of the following categories of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system:
(a) N02 (Analgesics);
(b) N03 (Antiepileptics);
(c) N04 (Anti-Parkinson Drugs);
(d) N05 (Psycholeptics);
(e) N06 (Psychoanaleptics);
(f) N07 (Other central nervous system drugs);
(g) R03 (Drugs for obstructive airway diseases);
(h) C10A (Serum lipid reducing agents);
(i) A02B (Drugs for peptic ulcer and gastro-oesophageal reflux diseases);
(j) J01 (Antibacterials for systemic use);
(k) M01 (Anti-inflammatory and antirheumatic products);
(l) A10A (Insulin and analogues);
(m) C02 (Antihypertensives).
Note: The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system is published by the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology.
"voucher " has the meaning given by section 4 of the Hearing Services Administration Act 1997 .
(2) An expression (other than recoverable amount ) used in Part 2 of this instrument and in the Aged Care Act has the same meaning in that Part as it has in that Act.
Note: The following expressions are defined in clause 1 of Schedule 1 to the Aged Care Act:
(a) aged care service;
(b) approved provider;
(c) flexible care subsidy;
(d) home care;
(e) home care service;
(f) protected information;
(g) residential care service.