Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00078:schedule:2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00078
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2
Character Range: 4289–5751

Schedule 2—Midwife Amendments

Health Insurance (Section 3C Midwife and Nurse Practitioner Services) Determination 2020

   1.    At the end of Part 1
Add:

      6B. Meaning of symbol (H)

      (1) An item in this instrument including the symbol (H) applies only to a service performed or provided in a hospital.

   1.    After subsection 10(5)
Insert:

        1.     If a service described in item 82103 is provided on the same day as a service to which item 82100, 82102, 82105, 82110, 91211, 91212, 91218 or 91219 applies, the subsequent item will only apply if it is:
                 1.     not a continuation of the first attendance; and
                 2.     is clinically relevant and distinct from the first attendance.

   1.    Schedule 1 (cell at item 82100, column 2)
Repeal the cell, substitute:
    Initial antenatal professional attendance by a participating midwife, lasting at least 60 minutes, including all the following:
      (a) taking a detailed patient history;
      (b) performing a comprehensive examination;
      (c) performing a risk assessment;
      (d) based on the risk assessment — arranging referral or transfer of the patient's care to an obstetrician;
      (e) requesting pathology and diagnostic imaging services, when necessary;
    Payable only once per pregnancy

   1.    Schedule 1 (cell at item 82100, column 3)
Repeal the cell, substitute:
    84.70

   1.    Schedule 1 (after item 82100)
         Insert: