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This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical – Expansion of GP and Allied Health Chronic Disease Management Services for Care Recipients of a Residential Aged Care Facility) Determination 2020.
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This instrument adds a set of Medicare-funded items for GPs and allied‑health practitioners providing chronic disease management to residents of residential aged care facilities, treating those services as both professional and medical services and specifying fees (cl.6; Parts 3–5). It imposes operational rules — referrals, minimum durations, written reports, telehealth/phone criteria, frequency caps, a per‑attendance flagfall, and exclusions for admitted patients or where private health insurance is claimed — and ceases on 30 June 2022 (cls.8–9,13–16,4).
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This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical – Expansion of GP and Allied Health Chronic Disease Management Services for Care Recipients of a Residential Aged Care Facility) Determination 2020.
This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 June 2022.
Schedule 1—Amendments
(1) In this instrument:
Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.
admitted patient means means a patient who is receiving a service that is provided:
(a) as part of an episode of hospital treatment; or
(b) as part of an episode of hospital‑substitute treatment in respect of which the person to whom the treatment is provided chooses to receive a benefit from a private health insurer.
care recipient has the meaning given by the general medical services table.
eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible Aboriginal health worker has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible allied health practitioner means:
(a) an eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner;
(b) an eligible Aboriginal health worker;
(c) an eligible audiologist;
(d) an eligible chiropractor;
(e) an eligible diabetes educator;
(f) an eligible dietitian;
(g) an eligible exercise physiologist;
(h) an eligible mental health nurse;
(i) an eligible mental health worker;
(j) an eligible occupational therapist;
(k) an eligible osteopath;
(l) an eligible physiotherapist;
(m) an eligible podiatrist;
(n) an eligible psychologist; or
(o) an eligible speech pathologist.
eligible audiologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible chiropractor has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible diabetes educator has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible dietitian has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible exercise physiologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible mental health nurse has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible mental health worker has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible occupational therapist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible osteopath has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible physiotherapist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible podiatrist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible psychologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible speech pathologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
phone attendance means a professional attendance by telephone where the health practitioner:
(c) has the capacity to provide the full service through this means safely and in accordance with professional standards; and
(d) is satisfied that it is clinically appropriate to provide the service to the patient; and
(e) maintains an audio link with the patient.
relevant provisions means all provisions, relating to professional services or to medical services, of the Act and regulations made under the Act, and the National Health Act 1953 and regulations under that Act.
residential aged care facility has the meaning given by the general medical services table.
shared care plan has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
telehealth attendance means a professional attendance by video conference where the rendering health practitioner:
(a) has the capacity to provide the full service through this means safely and in accordance with relevant professional standards; and
(b) is satisfied that it is clinically appropriate to provide the service to the patient; and
(c) maintains a visual and audio link with the patient; and
(d) is satisfied that the software and hardware used to deliver the service meets the applicable laws for security and privacy.
Note: The following terms are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act:
general medical services table
hospital treatment
hospital‑substitute treatment
item
medical practitioner
Chief Executive Medicare
professional service
For subsection 3C(1) of the Act, a relevant health service, provided in accordance with this instrument and as a clinically relevant health service, is to be treated, for the relevant provisions, as if:
(a) it were both a professional service and a medical service; and
(b) there were an item in the general medical services table that:
(i) related to the health service; and
(ii) specified in respect of the health service a fee in relation to each State, being the fee specified in the Schedule in relation to the service.
A reference in this instrument to an item includes a reference to an item:
(a) relating to a health service that, under a determination in force under subsection 3C(1) of the Act;
(b) relating to a professional service that, under the general medical services table in force under section 4 of the Act;
is treated as if there were an item in the Schedule that relates to the service.
An item in Parts 3 to 5 to this instrument does not apply to a service if a private health insurance benefit has been claimed for the service.
An item in this instrument does not apply to a service performed for an admitted patient.
Application provision
(1) Items 93469 and 93475 do not apply to a service unless the person with the multidisciplinary care plan suffers from at least one medical condition that:
(a) has been (or is likely to be) present for at least 6 months; or
(b) is terminal.
Claimining limitation
(2) Items 93469 and 93475 do not apply to a service if:
(a) the service is associated with a service to which items 235 to 240, 735 to 758, apply; or
(b) the person has received a service to which item 229 to 233, 721, 723, 729, 731 or 732, 92024, 92025, 92026, 92027, 92028, 92055, 92056, 92057, 92058, 92059, 92068, 92069, 92070, 92071, 92072, 92099, 92100, 92101, 92102, 92103 applied in the previous 3 months;
unless there has been a significant change in the patient’s clinical condition or care circumstances that necessitates the performance of the service for the patient.
Meaning of terms
(3) In items 93469 and 93475:
multidisciplinary care plan means a a written plan that:
(a) is prepared for a care recipient by a collaborating provider (other than a general practitioner), in consultation with at least 2 other collaborating providers, each of whom provides a different kind of treatment or service to the patient; and
(b) describes, at least, treatment and services to be provided to the patient by the collaborating providers.
In this subclause, a collaborating provider is a person, including a medical practitioner, who:
(a) provides treatment or a service to a patient; and
(b) is not an unpaid carer of the patient.
Claimining limitation provisions for health assessment items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in residential care
(1) Items 93470 and 93479 do not apply to a service if the person has received a service to which item 228, 715, 92004, 92011, 92016, or 92023 applied in the previous 9 months.
Application provisions for health assessment items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in residential care
(2) Clause 2.15.14 of the general medical services table shall have effect as if items 93470 and 93479 were also specified in the clause.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-right:9pt; margin-left:9pt; border-collapse:collapse; float:left"><thead><tr><td colspan="2" style="width:327.75pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Group A43 – Care Reciepient of a Residental Aged Care Facility planning and contribution items</span></p></td><td style="width:55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:52.4pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Item</span></p></td><td style="width:264.55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Service</span></p></td><td style="width:55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:10.55pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">Fee($)</span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:393.55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Subgroup 1—GP planning and contribution items in RACF</span></p></td></tr></thead></table>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:454.6pt; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td style="width:55.3pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93469</span></p></td><td style="width:284.35pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>Professional attendance by a general practitioner at a residential aged care facility to contribute to a multidisciplinary care plan, prepared by that facility, or to a review of such a plan prepared by such a facility, if the practitioner performs any of the following:</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(a) prepares part of a multidisciplinary care plan and adding a copy of that part of the plan to the person’s medical records; or</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(b) </span><span>preparing amendments to part of a multidisciplinary care </span><span>plan and adding a copy of the amendments to the person’s medical records;</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(c) giving advice to a practitioner who prepares part of a multidisciplinary care plan and recording in writing, on the person’s medical records, any advice provided to the practitioner; or</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(d) </span><span>giving advice to a practitioner who reviews part of a multidisciplinary care plan and recording in writing, on the person’s medical records, any advice provided to the practitioner</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>not more than once in a 3 month period</span></p></td><td style="width:38.6pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-right:2.5pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span>73.25</span></p></td><td style="width:44.25pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td style="width:55.3pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93470</span></p></td><td style="width:284.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>Professional attendance by a general practitioner at a residential aged care facility to perform a health assessment of a person who is:</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(a) of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(b) </span><span>a care recipient in a residential aged care facility</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>not more than once in a 9 month period</span></p></td><td style="width:38.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-right:2.5pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span>220.85</span></p></td><td style="width:44.25pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td colspan="4" style="width:443.9pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-right:9pt; margin-left:9pt; border-collapse:collapse; float:left"><thead><tr><td style="width:393.55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Subgroup 2—Medical practitioner planning and contribution items in RACF</span></p></td></tr></thead></table><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:404pt; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td style="width:54.95pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93475</span></p></td><td style="width:279.9pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>Professional attendance by a medical practitioner</span><span> </span><span>(not including a general practitioner, specialist or a consultant physician) at a residential aged care facility to contribute to a multidisciplinary care plan, prepared by that facility, or to a review of such a plan prepared by such a facility, if the practitioner performs any of the following:</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(a) prepares part of a multidisciplinary care plan and adding a copy of that part of the plan to the person’s medical records; or</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(b) </span><span>preparing amendments to part of a multidisciplinary care plan and adding a copy of the amendments to the person’s medical records;</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(c) giving advice to a practitioner who prepares part of a multidisciplinary care plan and recording in writing, on the person’s medical records, any advice provided to the practitioner; or</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(d) </span><span>giving advice to a practitioner who reviews part of a multidisciplinary care plan and recording in writing, on the person’s medical records, any advice provided to the practitioner</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>not more than once in a 3 month period</span></p></td><td style="width:37.05pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-right:2.5pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span>58.60</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"></p></td></tr><tr style="height:16.3pt"><td style="width:55.3pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93479</span></p></td><td style="width:284.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>Professional attendance by a medical practitioner (not including a general practitioner, specialist or a consultant physician) at a residential aged care facility to perform a health assessment of a person who is:</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(a) of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(b) a care recipient in a residential aged care facility</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>not more than once in a 9 month period</span></p></td><td style="width:38.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-right:2.5pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span>176.70</span></p></td><td style="width:44.25pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
(1) For the first patient attended during one attendance by the allied health practitioner at one residential aged care facility on one occasion, the fee for the health service described in whichever item in Part 3 applies is the amount listed in the item plus $48.95.
(2) Items 93537 and 93538 are not applicable to subclause (1).
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This instrument is the Health Insurance (Section 3C General Medical – Expansion of GP and Allied Health Chronic Disease Management Services for Care Recipients of a Residential Aged Care Facility) Determination 2020.
This instrument is made under subsection 3C(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Unless earlier revoked, this instrument ceases as if revoked on 30 June 2022.
Schedule 1—Amendments
(1) In this instrument:
Act means the Health Insurance Act 1973.
admitted patient means means a patient who is receiving a service that is provided:
(a) as part of an episode of hospital treatment; or
(b) as part of an episode of hospital‑substitute treatment in respect of which the person to whom the treatment is provided chooses to receive a benefit from a private health insurer.
care recipient has the meaning given by the general medical services table.
eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible Aboriginal health worker has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible allied health practitioner means:
(a) an eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner;
(b) an eligible Aboriginal health worker;
(c) an eligible audiologist;
(d) an eligible chiropractor;
(e) an eligible diabetes educator;
(f) an eligible dietitian;
(g) an eligible exercise physiologist;
(h) an eligible mental health nurse;
(i) an eligible mental health worker;
(j) an eligible occupational therapist;
(k) an eligible osteopath;
(l) an eligible physiotherapist;
(m) an eligible podiatrist;
(n) an eligible psychologist; or
(o) an eligible speech pathologist.
eligible audiologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible chiropractor has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible diabetes educator has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible dietitian has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible exercise physiologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible mental health nurse has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible mental health worker has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible occupational therapist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible osteopath has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible physiotherapist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible podiatrist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible psychologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
eligible speech pathologist has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
phone attendance means a professional attendance by telephone where the health practitioner:
(c) has the capacity to provide the full service through this means safely and in accordance with professional standards; and
(d) is satisfied that it is clinically appropriate to provide the service to the patient; and
(e) maintains an audio link with the patient.
relevant provisions means all provisions, relating to professional services or to medical services, of the Act and regulations made under the Act, and the National Health Act 1953 and regulations under that Act.
residential aged care facility has the meaning given by the general medical services table.
shared care plan has the meaning given by the Health Insurance (Allied Health Services) Determination 2014.
telehealth attendance means a professional attendance by video conference where the rendering health practitioner:
(a) has the capacity to provide the full service through this means safely and in accordance with relevant professional standards; and
(b) is satisfied that it is clinically appropriate to provide the service to the patient; and
(c) maintains a visual and audio link with the patient; and
(d) is satisfied that the software and hardware used to deliver the service meets the applicable laws for security and privacy.
Note: The following terms are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act:
general medical services table
hospital treatment
hospital‑substitute treatment
item
medical practitioner
Chief Executive Medicare
professional service
For subsection 3C(1) of the Act, a relevant health service, provided in accordance with this instrument and as a clinically relevant health service, is to be treated, for the relevant provisions, as if:
(a) it were both a professional service and a medical service; and
(b) there were an item in the general medical services table that:
(i) related to the health service; and
(ii) specified in respect of the health service a fee in relation to each State, being the fee specified in the Schedule in relation to the service.
A reference in this instrument to an item includes a reference to an item:
(a) relating to a health service that, under a determination in force under subsection 3C(1) of the Act;
(b) relating to a professional service that, under the general medical services table in force under section 4 of the Act;
is treated as if there were an item in the Schedule that relates to the service.
An item in Parts 3 to 5 to this instrument does not apply to a service if a private health insurance benefit has been claimed for the service.
An item in this instrument does not apply to a service performed for an admitted patient.
Application provision
(1) Items 93469 and 93475 do not apply to a service unless the person with the multidisciplinary care plan suffers from at least one medical condition that:
(a) has been (or is likely to be) present for at least 6 months; or
(b) is terminal.
Claimining limitation
(2) Items 93469 and 93475 do not apply to a service if:
(a) the service is associated with a service to which items 235 to 240, 735 to 758, apply; or
(b) the person has received a service to which item 229 to 233, 721, 723, 729, 731 or 732, 92024, 92025, 92026, 92027, 92028, 92055, 92056, 92057, 92058, 92059, 92068, 92069, 92070, 92071, 92072, 92099, 92100, 92101, 92102, 92103 applied in the previous 3 months;
unless there has been a significant change in the patient’s clinical condition or care circumstances that necessitates the performance of the service for the patient.
Meaning of terms
(3) In items 93469 and 93475:
multidisciplinary care plan means a a written plan that:
(a) is prepared for a care recipient by a collaborating provider (other than a general practitioner), in consultation with at least 2 other collaborating providers, each of whom provides a different kind of treatment or service to the patient; and
(b) describes, at least, treatment and services to be provided to the patient by the collaborating providers.
In this subclause, a collaborating provider is a person, including a medical practitioner, who:
(a) provides treatment or a service to a patient; and
(b) is not an unpaid carer of the patient.
Claimining limitation provisions for health assessment items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in residential care
(1) Items 93470 and 93479 do not apply to a service if the person has received a service to which item 228, 715, 92004, 92011, 92016, or 92023 applied in the previous 9 months.
Application provisions for health assessment items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in residential care
(2) Clause 2.15.14 of the general medical services table shall have effect as if items 93470 and 93479 were also specified in the clause.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-right:9pt; margin-left:9pt; border-collapse:collapse; float:left"><thead><tr><td colspan="2" style="width:327.75pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Group A43 – Care Reciepient of a Residental Aged Care Facility planning and contribution items</span></p></td><td style="width:55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold"></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:52.4pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Item</span></p></td><td style="width:264.55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Service</span></p></td><td style="width:55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-left:10.55pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">Fee($)</span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:393.55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Subgroup 1—GP planning and contribution items in RACF</span></p></td></tr></thead></table>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:454.6pt; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td style="width:55.3pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93469</span></p></td><td style="width:284.35pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>Professional attendance by a general practitioner at a residential aged care facility to contribute to a multidisciplinary care plan, prepared by that facility, or to a review of such a plan prepared by such a facility, if the practitioner performs any of the following:</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(a) prepares part of a multidisciplinary care plan and adding a copy of that part of the plan to the person’s medical records; or</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(b) </span><span>preparing amendments to part of a multidisciplinary care </span><span>plan and adding a copy of the amendments to the person’s medical records;</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(c) giving advice to a practitioner who prepares part of a multidisciplinary care plan and recording in writing, on the person’s medical records, any advice provided to the practitioner; or</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(d) </span><span>giving advice to a practitioner who reviews part of a multidisciplinary care plan and recording in writing, on the person’s medical records, any advice provided to the practitioner</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>not more than once in a 3 month period</span></p></td><td style="width:38.6pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-right:2.5pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span>73.25</span></p></td><td style="width:44.25pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td style="width:55.3pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93470</span></p></td><td style="width:284.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>Professional attendance by a general practitioner at a residential aged care facility to perform a health assessment of a person who is:</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(a) of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>(b) </span><span>a care recipient in a residential aged care facility</span></p><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>not more than once in a 9 month period</span></p></td><td style="width:38.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-right:2.5pt; margin-bottom:3pt; text-align:center; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span>220.85</span></p></td><td style="width:44.25pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td colspan="4" style="width:443.9pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-right:9pt; margin-left:9pt; border-collapse:collapse; float:left"><thead><tr><td style="width:393.55pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p><span style="font-weight:bold">Subgroup 2—Medical practitioner planning and contribution items in RACF</span></p></td></tr></thead></table><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:12pt"><span></span></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:404pt; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:60.75pt"><td style="width:54.95pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-bottom:3pt; line-height:12pt"><span>93475</span></p></td><td style="width:279.9pt; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p style="margin-top:3pt; margin-b
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