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Volume 51, No. 12

B.C. Reg. 143/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

June 17, 2008

B.C. Reg. 143/2008 , deposited June 6, 2008, pursuant to the MEDICARE PROTECTION ACT [Section 51]. Order in Council 401/2008, approved and ordered June 6, 2008.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended by repealing

section 35 and substituting the following:

Benefits rendered outside British Columbia

(1) In this section, "medical practitioner" has the same meaning as in

section 29 of the Medicare Protection Act .

(2) If a medical practitioner renders to a beneficiary outside British Columbia services that the commission determines are medically required, the beneficiary is entitled to payment for the cost of the services as follows:

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a) without the commission's prior approval if the beneficiary resides in British Columbia and the nearest convenient location for the service is outside British Columb ia but within Canada;

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b) with prior approval of the commission if the services are elective, non-emergency services and are rendered outside Canada;

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c) with the prior approval of the BCBedline program operated by the Emergency and Health Services Commission if the services are emergency services and the required medical care is not available in Canada.

— G. ABBOTT, Minister of Health; G.CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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