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Volume 60, No. 23

229/2017

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 19, 2017

B.C. Reg. 229/2017 , deposited December 12, 2017, under the LABORATORY SERVICES ACT [section 71] and the MEDICARE PROTECTION ACT [section 51]. Order in Council 540/2017, approved and ordered December 12, 2017.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) the Laboratory Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 52/2015, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule, and

(b)

section 35 (2) of the Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended

(

i) in paragraph (

a) by striking out “ the service ” and substituting “ the services ”, and

(ii) in paragraph (

c) by striking out “ BCBedline program ” and substituting “ British Columbia Patient Transfer Network ”.

— A. DIX, Minister of Health ; M. MARK, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The Laboratory Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 52/2015, is amended by adding the following section:

Benefits rendered outside British Columbia

18.1 If a beneficiary receives, outside British Columbia, laboratory services that the minister determines are medically required, the beneficiary is entitled to payment for the cost of the laboratory services as follows:

(

a) without the minister's prior approval if the beneficiary resides in British Columbia and the nearest convenient location for receiving the laboratory services is outside British Columbia but within Canada;

(

b) with prior approval of the minister if the laboratory services are elective, non-emergency laboratory services and are provided outside Canada;

(

c) without the minister's prior approval if

(

i) the laboratory services are provided in respect of emergency services that are not available in Canada, and

(ii) the British Columbia Patient Transfer Network operated by British Columbia Emergency Health Services coordinates the transfer of the beneficiary outside Canada for the purpose of receiving the emergency services.

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