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Contents << Section A: Fees for Admitted Patients8. Eligible and Ineligible PatientsHospitals may set fees for patients who are not covered by Medicare including overseas patients. Fees for ineligible patients should be set to achieve full cost recovery. In setting fees, hospitals should be aware that some overseas patients are entitled to financial assistance (eg because of reciprocal health care agreements). To help determine eligibility status, and level (if any) of financial assistance, see:
Reciprocal Health Care Agreements (RHCA)
Medicare eligibility, and entitlements for sponsored groups of children visiting from the Chernobyl region Ineligible patients Circular No. 19/1996 (Item No. 6) 'Ineligible' Patients from whom no payment may be forthcoming. Asylum seekers For information from the Commonwealth Department
of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in relation
to assistance for asylum seekers in Australia (including Medicare
eligibility), please see the web link below. For State arrangements for public hospitals with respect to Asylum seekers refer Circular 27/2005 Temporary Protection Visas (subclass 785) Holders Circular
No. 16/2000 Applicants for Parent Visas Changes to Medicare eligibility New Interim Medicare Olympic Games Circular No. 14/98 (Item No. 5) Overseas visitors top Victoria during the lead-up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Circular No. 14/2000 Olympic Games Football (Soccer) - Melbourne Overseas Students Commonwealth Circular HBF 579 Overseas Student Health Cover Arrangements Overseas Student Health Cover Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care Internet website www.health.gov.au/pubs/circfinl/index.htm Contacts for urgent advice not apparent from the above include:
Reference: Circular No.3/1999 Issued 6 April 1999 9. Nursing Home Type Patients The following fees are charged daily for nursing home type patients in public hospitals: Standard Fees Benefit (private patients) $99.15 (See section on Compensable Patients re: compensable nursing home patients) Date of effect: 20 March 2009 Public hospitals in Victoria that are participating in the Australian Health Care Agreement-Pharmaceutical Reforms are permitted to raise fees for admitted patients upon discharge, non participating hospitals are not permitted to raise fees for admitted patients upon discharge. Patient Contribution per Prescription Item General patients - up to $32.90 for PBS listed items and up to cost price for non-PBS listed items. Concessional Beneficiaries - up to $5.30 for PBS listed items and up to cost price for non-PBS listed items. Brand and Therapeutic Group premiums may also be applied by participating hospitals. Information regarding the Pharmaceutical Benefits Safety Net Scheme and Concessional Beneficiaries can be found in Section B: Fees for Non-Admitted Patients Next Page >> |
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