Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2001 00-c0-05 Xml

Western Australia

Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2001

Contents

1.Citation1

2.Interpretation1

3.Charges payable in respect of compensable patients1

4.Revocation2

Schedule 1 — Services charges for compensable patients

Division 1 — Compensable in‑patients

Division 2 — Compensable day patients

Division 3 — Compensable out‑patients

Division 4 — Compensable same day patients

Notes

Compilation table5

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984

Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2001

1.Citation

This determination may be cited as the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2001.

2.Interpretation

Unless the contrary intention appears, 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.

3.Charges payable in respect of compensable patients

(1)Except as provided in subclause (2), the charges specified in Schedule 1 are the charges payable in respect of services rendered by, in or at a hospital in respect of —

(a)compensable in‑patients, compensable day patients and compensable out‑patients; and

(b)compensable same day patients (other than services rendered by, in or at a day hospital, nursing home or nursing post.

(2)The charges specified in Schedule 1 do not apply to the supply of surgically implanted prostheses subject to a determination made under regulation 5(2)(c) of the Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984.

4.Revocation

The Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 1994 is revoked.

Schedule 1 — Services charges for compensable patients

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Division 1 — Compensable in‑patients

1.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed, other than as provided in items 2 and 4	$702 per day
2.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed for a patient in respect of whose care and treatment the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie appears to apply	$666 per day
3.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a nursing home bed	$166 per day
4.	Ventilator dependent compensable in‑patient with tracheostomy requiring 24 hours individual care	$1 620 per day

Division 2 — Compensable day patients

5.	Accommodation, maintenance and other services	$94 per day

Division 3 — Compensable out‑patients

6.	For pathological service — for each request to a separate department of a laboratory	$94
7.	For radiological service — for each item of service	$94
8.	Subject to item 9, for drugs and medications — for each item	$15.40
9.	For each other individual service (with any drugs and medications supplied at the time of the initial service being treated as included in that service)	$94

Division 4 — Compensable same day patients

10.	In hospitals, other than day hospitals, nursing homes and nursing posts —
	(a)for a patient in respect of whose care and treatment the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943 applies or prima facie appears to apply	$508 per day
	(b)for any other patient	$551 per day

[Schedule 1 amended in Gazette 4 Jun 2002 p. 2671.]

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2001 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2001	25 Sep 2001 p. 5289‑90	25 Sep 2001
Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination 2002	4 Jun 2002 p. 2671	4 Jun 2002
This determination was revoked by the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2002 r. 4 as at 18 Jun 2002 (see Gazette 18 Jun 2002 p. 2860)