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HEALTH INSURANCE (1992 PATHOLOGY SERVICES TABLE) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)1992 NO. 46

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1992 No. 46

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

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance (1992 Pathology Services Table) Regulations (Amendment)

The Health Insurance Act 1973 (the Act) provides for payments by way of medical benefits, payments for hospital services and payments for matters concerning related committees and tribunals.

Section 133 of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Section 9 of the Act provides, in effect, that medicare benefits shall be calculated by reference to the fees for pathology services set out in the table of pathology services (the table) in Schedule 1A to the Act.

Section 4A of the Act provides, among other things, that the regulations may prescribe a table of pathology services to take effect as if it were set out in Schedule 1A. in place of the table in that Schedule. Subsection 4A(4) provides that the prescribed table may be amended by regulation and that the table as amended supersedes the prescribed table. The Health Insurance (1992 Pathology Services Table) Regulations (Amendment) amend such a table.

These Regulations incorporate amendments recommended by the Pathology Services Table Committee (an informal committee comprising the Australian Medical Association, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. the Australian Association of Pathology Practices and the Commonwealth, which advises the Minister on revisions to the table).

The Regulations insert a new item 66321 which consolidates separate tests to be used to test maternal serum as part diagnosis of Downs Syndrome and Neural Tube Defects. The Regulations also replace item 73045 to clarify its intent and make a technical correction to the item number associated with the abbreviation for a group of tests.


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