Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2005 00-c0-03 Xml

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals (Services Charges) Regulations 1984

Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2005

1.Citation

This determination is the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2005.

2.Commencement

This determination comes into operation on 1 July 2005.

3.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 regulations has the same meaning when it is used in this determination.

4.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 —

(a)services rendered by, in or at the hospital in respect of compensable in‑patients, compensable day patients and compensable out‑patients; and

(b)services rendered by, at or in the hospital in respect of 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 that are the subject of a determination made under regulation 5(2)(c) of the regulations.

5.Revocation

The following determinations are revoked —

(a)the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2002;

(b)the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination 2003;

(c)the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination 2004;

(d)the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2004;

(e)the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination 2005.

Schedule 1 — Services charges for compensable patients

[cl. 4]

Division 1 — Compensable in-patients

1.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a hospital bed, except services referred to in item 3 or 4 ………………………...	$1 193 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 …………………	$1 040 per day
3.	Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and other services in a nursing home bed …………...	$201 per day
4.	Ventilator dependent compensable in‑patient with tracheostomy requiring 24 hours individual care ……………………………………………...	$2 872 per day

Division 2 — Compensable out-patients

5.	For pathological service — for each request to a separate department of the laboratory ...………...	$123
6.	For radiological service — for each item of service …………………………………………...	$123
7.	For drugs and medications, subject to item 8, for each item — (a)at a participating hospital — (i)for an item on the PBS list …………… (ii)for an item not on the PBS list ………. (b)at a hospital that is not a participating hospital …………………………………….	PBS price up to a maximum of $29.50 $23.60 $23.60
8.	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 ..	$123

[Division 2 amended in Gazette 28 Feb 2006 p. 913.]

Division 3 — Compensable same day patients

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 ……………….…………...

(b)for any other patient ……………………….

$994 per day

$1 142 per day

Notes

1This is a compilation of the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2005 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table 1a.

Compilation table

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Determination 2005	28 Jun 2005 p. 2922-4	1 Jul 2005 (see cl. 2)
Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination 2006	28 Feb 2006 p. 912-13	28 Feb 2006

1aOn the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Citation	Gazettal	Commencement
Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2006 r. 4 2	13 Jun 2006 p. 2063-4	1 Jul 2006 (see r. 2)

2On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Hospitals (Services Charges for Compensable Patients) Amendment Determination (No. 2) 2006 r. 4 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

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4.Schedule 1 amended

(1)Schedule 1 Division 1 is amended as follows:

(a)in item 1 by deleting “$1 193 per day” and inserting instead —

“ $1 341 per day ”;

(b)in item 2 by deleting “$1 040 per day” and inserting instead —

“ $1 169 per day ”;

(c)in item 3 by deleting “$201 per day” and inserting instead —

“ $212 per day ”;

(d)in item 4 by deleting “$2 872 per day” and inserting instead —

“ $3 128 per day ”.

(2)Schedule 1 Division 2 is amended by deleting “$123” in each place where it occurs and inserting instead —

“ $130 ”.

(3)Schedule 1 Division 3 item 9 is amended as follows:

(a)in paragraph (a) by deleting “$994 per day” and inserting instead —

“ $1 193 per day ”;

(b)in paragraph (b) by deleting “$1 142 per day” and inserting instead —

“ $1 370 per day ”.

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