Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Noarlunga and Smaller Medical Services in South Australia) Direction (No.2) 2021 (Cth)

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Noarlunga and Smaller Medical Services in South Australia) Direction (No.2) 2021

I, NIGEL MURRAY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY, Medical Benefits Division, Health Resourcing Group, delegate for the Minister for Health, acting under subsection 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, hereby: (1) REVOKE the Direction made under subsection 19(2) of the Act that was granted on 1 July 2021, in respect of professional services provided by, or on behalf of, or under an arrangement with South Australia Health; and

(2) DIRECT that Medicare Benefits shall be payable in respect of: (a) a professional service (as defined in Section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973) which has been agreed to be provided by, or on behalf of, or under an arrangement with South Australia Health (ABN: 97 643 356 590) for which: (i) items specified in Schedule A of this Direction; and (ii) of the general medical services table (means the table prescribed under subsection 4(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973), diagnostic imaging services table (means the table prescribed under subsection 4AA(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973) and pathology services table (means the table prescribed under subsection 4A(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973) relates: and (b) Where the professional service is provided to: (i) an eligible person (as defined in Section 3 of the Health Insurance Act 1973); and (ii) a patient who is not receiving hospital treatment or an episode of hospital treatment (as defined in Section 121-5 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007); and (c) the professional services referred to in clause (a): (i) is provided at a practice location specified in Schedule B of this Direction. DECLARED that this Direction shall have effect from the date of signature until 30 June 2025 inclusive unless earlier revoked. Date this 22 day of December 2021