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Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination HS/02/2007

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    Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination HS/02/2007 __________________________________________________________________ I, TONY ABBOTT, Minister for Health and Ageing, make this Determination under subsection 3C (1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973. Dated                     4 April 2007
  ________________________________ TONY ABBOTT Minister for Health and Ageing            

Contents
  1.           Name of Determination                                                                             3 2.           Commencement                                                                                      3 3.           Interpretation                                                                                           3 4.           Treatment of a relevant service                                                                  3 Schedule        Specified health services                                                             4    

1.                      Name of Determination
This Determination is the Health Insurance (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) Determination HS/02/2007.
2.                      Commencement
This Determination commences on 1 May 2007. 
3.                      Interpretation
(1)        In this Determination: relevant service means a health service, as defined in subsection 3C(8) of the Act, that is specified in the Schedule. the Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973. the Schedule means the Schedule to this Determination. Note          Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in this Determination have the same meanings as in the Act—see section 13 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. (2)        Unless the contrary intention appears, in this Determination a reference to a provision of the Act, the National Health Act 1953, or the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 or regulations made under the Act, the National Health Act 1953 or regulations or rules made under the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.
4.                      Treatment of a relevant service
A relevant service shall be treated for the purposes of all provisions of the Act, regulations made under the Act, the National Health Act 1953, regulations made under the National Health Act 1953, the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 and regulations and rules made under the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 as if: (a)                    it were both a professional service and a medical service; and (b)                   there were an item in the general medical services table that related to the relevant service and specified in respect of the service a fee in relation to a State, being the fee specified in the Schedule in relation to the State specified. Schedule         Specified health services  
Item
Health Service
Fee for all States
  13251
INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION for the purposes of assisted reproductive technologies, for male factor infertility, excluding a service to which item 13218 applies  
  $380.00
  37605
TRANSCUTANEOUS SPERM RETRIEVAL, unilateral, from either the testis or the epididymis, for the purposes of  INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION, in a man with male factor infertility, excluding a service to which item 13218 applies (Anaes)  
  $330.00
37606
OPEN SURGICAL SPERM RETRIEVAL, unilateral, including the exploration of scrotal contents, with or without biopsy, for the purposes of INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION, in a man with male factor infertility, performed in a hospital or approved day hospital facility, excluding a service to which item 13218 or 37604 applies (Anaes.)
$490.00
                        Note    Section 3C(7) of the Act deems an internal territory to form part of the State of New South Wales.