67KAHealth Secretary may charge booking and cancellation fees

67KA Health Secretary may charge booking and cancellation fees

67KA Health Secretary may charge booking and cancellation fees

(1) The Health Secretary may charge a private provider a fee for the following activities—

(a) making a booking for ambulance services,

(b) cancelling a booking for ambulance services within—

(i) 4 hours before the time the service was to be provided, or

(ii) 1 hour after the time the service was to be provided.

(2) A fee charged under this section must be the fee set out for the activity in the scale of fees published under section 67L.

(3) A service that is not provided because the patient was not ready or available to be transported within 1 hour after the time the services were to be provided is taken to have been cancelled for subsection (1)(b).

(4) In this section—

residential care home has the same meaning as in the Aged Care Act 2024 of the Commonwealth.

private provider means the following—

(a) the licensee of a private health facility,

(b) the operator of a residential care home,

(c) a provider, or a class of provider, of health services prescribed by the regulations.

s 67KA: Ins 2025 No 30, Sch 4[2].