Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Remote Vocational Training Scheme Extended Targeted Recruitment Pilot) Direction 2022 (Cth)

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND AGED CARE

HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Remote Vocational Training Scheme Extended Targeted Recruitment Pilot) Direction 2022 I, Travis Haslam, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Medical Benefits Division, Health Resourcing Group, delegate for the Minister for Health and Aged Care, acting under subsection 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973, hereby: 1. REVOKE the Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Remote Vocational Training Scheme Extended Targeted Recruitment Pilot) Direction 2021, dated 21 January 2021; 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 under the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) Extended Targeted Recruitment Pilot between the Department of Health and Aged Care (ABN: 24 004 196 909) and the Remote Vocational Training Scheme Limited (ABN: 99 122 891 838) in relation to the remote general practice innovative employment model trial for which; (i) items specified in Schedule A of this Direction; and 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 part of an episode of hospital treatment (as defined in Section 121-5 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007); and