❓ Hon Robin Chapple asks about Patient Assisted Travel Scheme (PATS) coverage for returning deceased patients' bodies home. The Minister outlines the different levels of support based on location and concession card status.
AnsweredQoN 399Legislative Council
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PATIENT ASSISTED TRAVEL SCHEME
— DECEASED PATIENTS — RETURN
399. Hon
ROBIN CHAPPLE to the minister representing the Minister for Health:
What
provision is made under the patient assisted travel scheme to cover the cost of
returning the body of a deceased patient to their home in the event of their
death during a patient assisted travel scheme-funded medical procedure or
routine check-up?
— DECEASED PATIENTS — RETURN
399. Hon
ROBIN CHAPPLE to the minister representing the Minister for Health:
What
provision is made under the patient assisted travel scheme to cover the cost of
returning the body of a deceased patient to their home in the event of their
death during a patient assisted travel scheme-funded medical procedure or
routine check-up?
AnswerView source ↗
I
thank the member for some notice of this question.
Under
the patient assisted travel scheme policy, two arrangements apply. For all
people who live above the twenty-sixth parallel, and for people who live below
the twenty-sixth parallel and who hold a valid concession card, PATS covers the
full cost of returning the deceased to their nearest country hospital. For
people who live below the twenty-sixth parallel and who do not hold a concession
card, PATS provides the standard 16c per kilometre subsidy for road travel that
is less than 16 hours. Air travel is provided for travel that is greater than
16 hours.
thank the member for some notice of this question.
Under
the patient assisted travel scheme policy, two arrangements apply. For all
people who live above the twenty-sixth parallel, and for people who live below
the twenty-sixth parallel and who hold a valid concession card, PATS covers the
full cost of returning the deceased to their nearest country hospital. For
people who live below the twenty-sixth parallel and who do not hold a concession
card, PATS provides the standard 16c per kilometre subsidy for road travel that
is less than 16 hours. Air travel is provided for travel that is greater than
16 hours.
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