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HEALTH INSURANCE (1991-1992 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES TABLE) REGULATIONS(AMENDMENT) 1992 NO. 240

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1992 No. 240

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

Health Insurance Act 1973

Health Insurance (1991-1992 Diagnostic Imaging 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 4AA of the Act provides that the regulations may prescribe a table of diagnostic imaging services. The Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations prescribe such a table.

Section 9 of the Act provides that medicare benefits shall be calculated by reference to the fees for diagnostic imaging services set out in the table of diagnostic imaging services (the table) in the Schedule to the Act.

The table of diagnostic imaging services lists those services (with an identifying item number and details of the prescribed fee) which attract benefits under the Medicare arrangements. The table is structured so as to group services according to their general nature, and each group and sub-group is given a heading identifying the type of services included therein. There are 5 groups and 22 sub-groups in the table of diagnostic imaging services. The table also includes rules of interpretation for services in the table, and the rules are also provided for in section 4AA of the Act.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services are now provided through nationally funded units rather than under the Medicare arrangements, and it is therefore necessary to remove the single relevant item relating to MRI services from the table of diagnostic imaging services.

The Regulations consequently amend the Health Insurance (Diagnostic Imaging Services Table) Regulations by omitting the heading to Group 14 in the table, item 61200 (the only item in Group 14) and rule 4 of the rules of interpretation for the table.

The Regulations commence on gazettal.


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