Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Chronic Disease Management) Regulation 2014
Select Legislative Instrument No. 158, 2014
I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.
Dated 30 October 2014
Peter Cosgrove
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Peter Dutton
Minister for Health
Contents
1............ Name................................................................................................... 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Authority............................................................................................. 1
4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2014 2
1 Name
This is the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Amendment (Chronic Disease Management) Regulation 2014.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on 1 November 2014.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulation 2014
1 After clause 2.17.10 of Schedule 1
Insert:
2.17.10A Application of items in relation to items 721, 723 and 732
The following items do not apply to a service mentioned in the item that is provided by a medical practitioner, if the service is provided on the same day for the same patient for whom the practitioner provides a service mentioned in item 721, 723 or 732:
(a) items 3, 4, 23, 24, 36, 37, 44, 47, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 65;
(b) items 597, 598, 599 and 600;
(c) items 5000, 5003, 5020, 5023, 5040, 5043, 5060 and 5063;
(d) items 5200, 5203, 5207, 5208, 5220, 5223, 5227 and 5228.