Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Amendment (Other Medical Practitioner) Determination 2018 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Amendment (Other Medical Practitioner) Determination 2018 Health Insurance Act 1973

I, Celia Street, delegate of the Minister for Health, make this Determination under subsection 3C (1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated 25 June 2018

Celia Street Assistant Secretary Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology Branch Medical Benefits Division Department of Health

1 Name

This Determination is the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Amendment (Other Medical Practitioner) Determination 2018.

2 Commencement

This Determination commences immediately after the commencement of the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Other Medical Practitioner) Determination 2018.

3 Authority

This Determination is made under subsection 3C(1) of 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Amendment

Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014

1 Subsection 4(1) (definition of GP Management Plan)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

GP Management Plan, for a patient, means a GP management plan to which item 721 or 732 of the general medical services table or item 229 or 233 of the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Other Medical Practitioner) Determination 2018 applies.

2 Subsection 4(1) (definition of GP Mental Health Treatment Plan)

Repeal paragraph (b) of the definition, substitute:

(b) a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan for the patient to which item 2700, 2701, 2715 or 2717 of the general medical services table or item 272, 276, 281 or 282 of the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Other Medical Practitioner) Determination 2018 applies.