Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2)1
Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 27
I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Dated 25 February 2010
QUENTIN BRYCE
Governor-General
By Her Excellency’s Command
NICOLA ROXON
Minister for Health and Ageing
1              Name of Regulations
                These Regulations are the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2).
2              Commencement
                These Regulations commence on 1 March 2010.
3              Amendment of Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2009
                Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2009.
Schedule 1        Amendments
(regulation 3)
 
[1]           Schedule 1, subrule 3 (2A)
omit
[2]           Schedule 1, subrule 9 (1)
omit
10929
insert
10929, 16401, 16404, 16590, 16591
[3]           Schedule 1, subrule 13 (3)
omit
16573
insert
16573, 16590, 16591
[4]           Schedule 1, rule 82
substitute
82            Meaning of embryology laboratory services in items 13200, 13201 and 13206
                In items 13200, 13201 and 13206:
embryology laboratory services includes:
                (a)    egg recovery from aspirated follicular fluid; and
               (b)    semen preparation; and
                (c)    insemination; and
               (d)    monitoring of fertilisation and embryo development; and
                (e)    preparation of gametes or embryos for transfer or freezing.
[5]           Schedule 1, rule 88
omit
16519 and 16522,
insert
16519, 16522, 16590 and 16591,
[6]           Schedule 1, Part 3, item 104
substitute
104
Professional attendance at consulting rooms or hospital by a specialist in the practice of his or her specialty after referral of the patient to him or her — each attendance, other than a second or subsequent attendance, in a single course of treatment, not being a service to which item 106, 109 or 16401 applies
80.85
[7]           Schedule 1, Part 3, item 16401
omit
treatment
insert
treatment, not being a service to which item 104 applies
[8]           Schedule 1, Part 3, items 16590 and 16591
substitute
16590
Planning and management of a pregnancy that has progressed beyond 20 weeks, if the fee does not include any amount for the management of the labour and delivery and, if the practitioner intends to undertake the delivery for the privately admitted patient, the service is not a service to which item 16591 applies
(Item is subject to rule 76)
306.30

16591
Planning and management of a pregnancy that has progressed beyond 20 weeks, if the fee does not include any amount for the management of the labour and delivery and, if the care of the patient will be transferred to another medical practitioner, the service is not a service to which item 16590 applies
(Item is subject to rule 76)
134.80

[9]           Schedule 1, Part 3, item 37220
after
(H)
insert
(Anaes.)
Note
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