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HEALTH INSURANCE (1992-1993 GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES TABLE) REGULATIONS(AMENDMENT) 1992 NO. 347

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1992 No. 347

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health insurance (1992-1993 General Medical Services Table) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 133 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Section 4 of the Act provides that the regulations may prescribe a table of medical services (the-table), (other than pathology services) in accordance with the form of table set out in Schedule 1 and that, upon commencement of a regulation prescribing the table, it has affect as if it were set out in Schedule 1 in place of the table in that Schedule. The Health Insurance (1992-1993 General medical Services Table) Regulations currently prescribe such a table for the purposes of section 4.

Section 9 of the Act provides that medicare benefits shall be calculated by reference to the fees for general medical services set out in the table.

The Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1992 No. 338 - Health Insurance (1992-1993 General Medical Services Table) Regulations - by substituting revised items in the table in place of items 30535, 38600 and 38603 and thereby rectifying an error and omissions.

The Regulations substitute a lower fee for item 30535, because an incorrect fee for item 30535 was inadvertently inserted in Statutory Rules 1992 No. 338 at the time of making.

Items 38600 and 38603, also inserted in the table by Statutory Rules 1992 No. 338, are amended by the Regulations, because the items are intended to be stand-alone services, that is they are not to be rendered in association with other services in the subgroup.

The Regulations come into effect from the date of gazettal.


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