Health Services Act 2016

Health Services (Fees and Charges) Amendment Order (No. 4) 2024

 

 

Health Services (Fees and Charges) Amendment Order (No. 4) 2024

Contents

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Order amended1

4.Various references to “Motor Vehicle (Catastrophic Injuries) Act 2016” amended1

5.Schedule 1 amended2

Division 1 — General

Subdivision 1 — In‑patients

Subdivision 2 — Day patients

Subdivision 3 — Out‑patients

Subdivision 4 — Same day patients

Subdivision 5 — Other services

Division 2 — Compensable patients

Subdivision 1 — Compensable in‑patients

Subdivision 2 — Compensable out‑patients

Subdivision 3 — Compensable same day patients

 

Health Services Act 2016

Health Services (Fees and Charges) Amendment Order (No. 4) 2024

Made by the Minister under section 56 of the Act.

1.Citation

This order is the Health Services (Fees and Charges) Amendment Order (No. 4) 2024.

2.Commencement

This order comes into operation as follows —

(a)clauses 1 and 2 — on the day on which this order is published on the WA legislation website;

(b)the rest of the order — on 1 July 2024.

3.Order amended

This order amends the Health Services (Fees and Charges) Order 2016.

4.Various references to “Motor Vehicle (Catastrophic Injuries) Act 2016” amended

In the provisions listed in the Table delete “Motor Vehicle (Catastrophic Injuries) Act 2016;” and insert:

 

Motor Vehicle and Workplace Accidents (Catastrophic Injuries) Act 2016;

 

Table

cl. 12(3)(ab)

cl. 13(3)(ab)

cl. 14(5)(ab)

cl. 15(5)(ab)

5.Schedule 1 amended

Delete Schedule 1 Divisions 1 and 2 and insert:

 

Division 1 — General

Subdivision 1 — In‑patients

1.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services —

 

 

(a)for public in‑patients

no charge

 

(b)for private in‑patients —

(i)in single bed wards (if taken at patient’s request)

(ii)in other wards


no more than $737 per day

$414 per day

 

(c)for nursing home type patients

$75.55 per day

 

(d)for nursing home type private patients

$225.30 per day

 

(e)for ineligible in‑patients

$2 884 per day

 

(f)for eligible veteran in‑patients

no charge

2.

Home modifications service and supply or loan as appropriate, of such aids and appliances, orthotics and prostheses, oxygen, gas and equipment, wigs, surgical implants or devices as are approved by the Department CEO (including repair and replacement)

no charge

Subdivision 2 — Day patients

3.

Accommodation, maintenance and other services for eligible day patients

no charge

Subdivision 3 — Out‑patients

4.

Out‑patients service, except for medicines referred to in item 5 —

 

 

(a)for eligible out‑patients and eligible veteran out‑patients

no charge

 

(b)for ineligible out‑patients — for each individual service rendered

$379

5.

Medicines, for each item —

 

 

(a)for holders of an entitlement card

no charge

 

(b)for other people who are —

(i)veterans who hold a Gold Card or a White Card; or

(ii)pensioners; or

(iii)concessional beneficiaries


 

 

no more than $7.70

 

(c)for all other people (other than ineligible out‑patients) —

(i)at a participating hospital for an item on the PBS list

(ii)at a participating hospital for an item not on the PBS list

(iii)at a hospital that is not a participating hospital

 



PBS price up to a maximum of $31.60

no more than $25.30


no more than $25.30

Subdivision 4 — Same day patients

6.

Same day health service, other than a service subject to a charge set out in this Schedule and associated with the provision of such service —

 

 

(a)for public same day patients

no charge

 

(b)for private same day patients

$341 per day

 

(c)for eligible veteran same day patients

no charge

 

(d)for ineligible same day patients

$2 894 per day

Subdivision 5 — Other services

7.

Accommodation for persons accompanying patients (except when parent accompanies sick child for medical wellbeing of sick child or breastfeeding, or when breastfed child accompanies sick mother)

$44 per day

Division 2 — Compensable patients

Subdivision 1 — Compensable in‑patients

1.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed, except services referred to in item 5 or 6

$3 100 per day

2.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a patient, not being a patient mentioned in item 3, in respect of whose health services the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie appears to apply

no charge

3.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a patient in Perth Children’s Hospital in respect of whose health services the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie appears to apply

no charge

4.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a nursing home bed

$341 per day

5.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a ventilator dependent compensable in‑patient with tracheostomy requiring 24 hour a day individual care

$6 821 per day

6.

Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a patient requiring 24 hour a day care for airway management, with or without tracheostomy

$4 078 per day

Subdivision 2 — Compensable out‑patients

7.

For radiological service — for each item of service

$379

8.

For medicines, subject to item 9, for each item —

(a)at a participating hospital for an item on the PBS list

(b)at a participating hospital for an item not on the PBS list

(c)at a hospital that is not a participating hospital

PBS price up to a maximum of $31.60


$25.30


$25.30

9.

For each other individual service (with any medicines supplied at the time of the initial service being treated as included in that service)

$379

Subdivision 3 — Compensable same day patients

10.

Same day treatment in hospitals, other than day hospitals, nursing homes and nursing posts —

(a)for a patient, not being a patient mentioned in paragraph (b), in respect of whose health services the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie appears to apply

no charge

 

(b)for a patient in Perth Children’s Hospital in respect of whose health services the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie appears to apply

no charge

 

(c)for any other patient

$3 834 per day

 

A. SANDERSON, Minister for Health

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