Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2008 (No. 4) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2008 (No. 4)

I, PENNY SHAKESPEARE, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make these Rules under item 3A of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

Dated

28th October 2008

____________________________________

Penny Shakespeare

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Acute Care Division

Department of Health and Ageing

Contents

Part 1Preliminary

1Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2008 (No. 4) .

2.Commencement

These Rules commence on:

(a) 1 November 2008; or

(b) if these Rules are registered after 1 November 2008 – on the day after they are registered.

3.Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2008 (No. 2)

The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2008 (No. 2).

Schedule―Amendments

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2, Subclause 4 (3):

Delete $770.29, substitute:

$788.01

[2]Schedule 1, Part 2, Subclause 6(3):

Delete $229.37 to $770.29, substitute:

$234.65 to $788.01

[3]Schedule 3, Part 3, Clause 8 Interpretation, Items in the general medical services table, in the list after A9:

Insert:

A11:

603 696

[4]Schedule 3, Part 3, Clause 8 Interpretation, Items in the pathology services table, in the list after P2:

Insert:

66831 66832

[5]Schedule 3, Part 3, Clause 8 Interpretation, Items in the pathology services table, in the list after P5:

Insert:

72827 72828 72849 72850 73324

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.See These Rules amend the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2008 (No.2)