Western Australian Numbered Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 71

71 .         Expenses that are medical and health expenses

        (1)         In this Division —

        medical and health expense means an expense that is for any of the following —

            (a)         medicines and medical requisites;

            (b)         medical or surgical attendance and treatment, including, if necessary, medical or surgical attendance and treatment by specialists;

            (c)         hospital fees and charges for any health service, as defined in the Health Services Act 2016 section 7, provided to the worker in a hospital, as defined in the Health Services Act 2016 section 8;

            (d)         the treatment and maintenance in a nursing home, as defined in the Private Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 section 2(1), of a worker certified by a medical practitioner as —

                  (i)         being permanently totally incapacitated for work; and

                  (ii)         requiring continuing treatment and maintenance that cannot be administered in the worker’s domestic environment;

            (e)         dental attendance and treatment;

            (f)         the provision of hearing aids, artificial teeth or artificial eyes;

            (g)         if the injury renders their use necessary, the provision of spectacles or contact lenses;

            (h)         health services prescribed by the regulations to be services the expenses in respect of which are medical and health expenses.

        (2)         Regulations prescribing health services as described in paragraph (h) of the definition of medical and health expense in subsection (1) may operate by reference to the person or class of persons providing the service.

        (3)         An expense is not a medical and health expense for the purposes of this Division if the expense is of a kind that is compensable as a miscellaneous expense under Division 5.