SCHEDULE 2 - Fees payable by n SCHEDULE 2 - Fees payable by nursing-home-type patients

Regulation 6

1.   Interpretation

In this Schedule –

prescribed formula, in relation to the calculation of a payable fee, means –

(a) in the case of the patient contribution payable by all nursing-home-type patients, the following formula:

| where – | | | "F" | is the fee rounded down to the nearest 5 cents; | | "B" | is the daily equivalent of the maximum basic rate of age pension prescribed for the purposes of section 1064 of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth plus the maximum rate of rent assistance prescribed for the purposes of that section of that Act; and |

(b) in the case of the default benefit payable by health funds on behalf of their privately insured contributors, the following formula:

| where – | | | "F" | is the fee rounded down to the nearest 5 cents; | | "B" | is the daily equivalent of the maximum basic rate of age pension prescribed for the purposes of section 1064 of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth plus the maximum rate of rent assistance prescribed for the purposes of that section of that Act. |

2.   Fees payable by nursing-home-type patients in public hospitals

The fee payable for hospital services for each day that a nursing-home-type patient is an admitted patient in a public hospital is to be calculated in accordance with the prescribed formula.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 17 October 2017

These regulations are administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.