Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – Point-of-Care Testing Services) Determination 2024 (Cth)

Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – Point-of-Care Testing Services) Determination 2024

I, Mary Warner, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated 24 September 2024

Mary Warner Assistant Secretary Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology Branch Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division Health Resourcing Group Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Treatment of relevant services 6 Application of items Schedule 1—Relevant services

1 Name This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C Pathology Services – Point-of-Care Testing Services) Determination 2024.

2 Commencement 1. Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument 1 November 2024.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. 1. Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in definitions section of the Act, including the following: 1. item; (b) professional service; (c) schedule fee. In this instrument: Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973. eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Allied Health Services) Determination 2024. eligible Aboriginal health worker has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical Services – Allied Health Services) Determination 2024. general medical services table means the table prescribed under subsection 4(1) of the Act. health professional means a practice nurse, eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner or eligible Aboriginal health worker. medical practitioner has the same meaning as subsection 3(1) of the Act. Modified Monash 6 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table. Modified Monash 7 area has the same meaning as in the general medical services table. pathology service has the same meaning as subsection 3(1) of the Act. pathology services table means the table prescribed under subsection 4A(1) of the Act. practice nurse has the same meaning as in the general medical services table. relevant provisions means all provisions, of the Act and regulations made under the Act, and the National Health Act 1953 and regulations made under the National Health Act 1953, relating to pathology services, professional services or items. relevant service means a health service, as defined in subsection 3C(8) of the Act, that is specified in a Schedule. Schedule means a Schedule to this instrument. 1. Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in this instrument to a provision of the Act or the National Health Act 1953 or regulations made under the Act or under the National Health Act 1953 as applied, adopted or incorporated in relation to specifying a matter is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time and any other reference to provisions of an Act or regulations is a reference to those provisions as in force from time to time.