Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927
Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984

Hospitals (Services Charges for Specialized Orthoses and Prostheses) Determination 1994

Western Australia

Hospitals (Services Charges for Specialized Orthoses and Prostheses) Determination 1994

CONTENTS

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Interpretation1

4.Application2

5.Charges payable in respect of specialized orthoses and prostheses2

Notes

Compilation table3

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927
Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984

Hospitals (Services Charges for Specialized Orthoses and Prostheses) Determination 1994

1.Citation

This determination may be cited as the Hospitals (Services Charges for Specialized Orthoses and Prostheses) Determination 1994.

2.Commencement

This determination comes into operation on 1 November 1994.

3.Interpretation

(1)Subject to this clause a word or phrase to which a meaning is attributed by, or by virtue of its use in the Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984 has the same meaning when it is used in this determination.

(2)In this determination, unless the contrary intention appears —

at cost, in relation to the charge for each specialized orthosis or prosthesis, means the charge calculated by the hospital in accordance with the pricing policy of the hospital;

pricing policy, means the pricing policy approved by the Board of the hospital as the basis on which charges are to be calculated for the supply of specialized orthoses or prostheses by the hospital and specifying the component costs that may be recovered by the hospital in respect of such supplies which components may include the cost of labour, material and general overheads but does include any component for profit;

specialized orthoses and prostheses means the classes of specialized orthoses and prostheses approved by the Board for supply at cost for the hospital.

4. Application

This determination applies to Royal Perth Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

5. Charges payable in respect of specialized orthoses and prostheses

The charge payable in respect of each specialized orthosis or prosthesis by the hospital referred to in clause 4 in respect of —

(a)the following classes of patients —

(i)compensable in-patients;

(ii)ineligible in-patients;

(iii)compensable out-patients;

(iv)eligible out-patients;

(v)ineligible out-patients;

(vi)compensable same day patients;

(vii)ineligible same day patients;

and

(b)any other services rendered to persons who are not patients,

is at cost.

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Hospitals (Services Charges for Specialized Orthoses and Prostheses) Determination 1994. The following table contains information about those regulations.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Hospitals (Services Charges for Specialized Orthoses and Prostheses) Determination 1994	30 Sep 1994 p. 4977-8	1 Nov 1994 (see cl. 2)