Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800:front:0:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00800
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Character Range: 30161–33106

and does not earn, derive or receive ordinary income exceeding $40 per fortnight.

          Note:  the Commission may allow exemption from payment for a period or until the occurrence of an event.

    "Fee Schedule" means a DVA document approved by the Repatriation Commission, the Commission, or a member of the Repatriation Commission or of the Commission, or by the Secretary to the Department, with the words "Fees" and 'Schedule", in relation to a category of health care provider, in the title to the document, that sets out the terms on which, and the conditions subject to which, the Commission will accept financial responsibility for treatment provided to an entitled person by the health care provider the subject of the document.

    Note: the DVA documents called Fee Schedules set out amounts the Department will pay for health care services and can designate whether a service required the prior approval of the Commission before it could be provided.

    "flexible care" has the meaning it has in section 49‑3 of the Aged Care Act 1997.

    "general practitioner" has the same meaning as "general practitioner" has in the Health Insurance Act 1973.

    "Gold Card" means the identification card (also known as the Veteran Card) provided by the Department to a person who is entitled under the Act to treatment, subject to these Principles, for all injuries or diseases.

    "GP Care Leadership treatment" means treatment provided by a general practitioner to an entitled person, under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program, comprised of the following:

(a) preparing and managing the Comprehensive Care Plan for the person under the Program;

(b) overseeing a practice nurse in the implementation of the Comprehensive Care Plan — where a practice nurse and not a community nurse or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker or the general practitioner co‑ordinates treatment under the Comprehensive Care Plan (Practice Nurse Care Co‑ordination treatment);

(c) referring the person to a DVA‑contracted community nursing provider for Community Nurse Care Co‑ordination treatment or to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care worker for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Care Co‑ordination treatment, if appropriate;

         (d) performing such other functions under the program that the general practitioner has under the Notes for Coordinated Veterans' Care Program Providers.

    "GP Home Care service (category C) Referral" means treatment comprised of a general practitioner preparing a written document that refers an entitled person, who the general practitioner has admitted to and is treating under the Coordinated Veterans' Care Program, to a VHC assessment agency for assessment for a Home Care service (category C) under the Veterans' Home Care Program and which:

(a) is in the form, if any, approved by the Commission; and

(b) is sent