Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2011L02162
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Health Insurance (Midwife and Nurse Practitioner) Determination 2011
Details: F2011L02162
- F2011L02162
This Determination revokes and remakes the 2010 Determination to include certain basic pathology services that participating nurse practitioners were intended to be able to provide which were not included in the 2010 Determination due to an oversight.
Repealed by Health Insurance (Midwife and Nurse Practitioner) Determination 2015
F2011L02162
I, RICHARD BARTLETT, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make this Determination under section 3C of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
3A Additional definitions for telehealth items 4
Part 2 Midwifery services 5
5 Treatment of midwifery services 5
6 Collaborative arrangements 5
7 General requirements 5
7A Other requirement for telehealth midwifery services 6
8 Labour and delivery 7
Part 3 Nurse practitioner services 8
9 Treatment of nurse practitioner services - general 8
9A Treatment of nurse practitioner services - pathology 8
10 Collaborative arrangements and scope of practice 8
11 General requirements 9
12 Requirements for pathology items 10
13 Other requirements for telehealth nurse practitioner services 10
Schedule 1 Midwifery services and fees 11
Part 1 Midwifery services and fees 11
Part 2 Telehealth midwifery services and fees 14
Schedule 2 Nurse practitioner services and fees 15
Part 1 Nurse practitioner pathology services and fees 15
Part 2 Nurse practitioner services and fees 16
Part 3 Telehealth nurse practitioner services and fees 17
This Determination is the Health Insurance (Midwife and Nurse Practitioner) Determination 2011.
Each provision of this Determination specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day specified in column 2 of the table.
4. Section 9A
6. Section 12
8. Anything in this Determination not elsewhere covered by this table
This Determination revokes the Health Insurance (Midwife and Nurse Practitioner) Determination 2010.
9 Treatment of nurse practitioner services - general
9A Treatment of nurse practitioner services - pathology
Note 2 A participating nurse practitioner performing a service described in items 73828 to 73837 must be the patient’s treating practitioner in order for medicare benefit to be payable – see subsection 16A(7A) of the Act.
Leucocyte count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, examination of blood film (including differential leucocyte count), haemoglobin, haematocrit or erythrocyte count by a participating nurse practitioner - 1 test
Microscopy of Gram-stained film, including (if performed) a service described in item 73832 or 73834 by a participating nurse practitioner