Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2011 (No. 8) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2011 (No. 8)

I, PETER WOODLEY, 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.

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Peter Woodley

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health and Ageing

15 September 2011

Contents

PART 1            PRELIMINARY

1.          Name of Rules

2.          Commencement

3.          Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit    Requirements) Rules 2010        3

SCHEDULE A – AMENDMENTS

SCHEDULE B - AMENDMENTS   6

SCHEDULE C – AMENDMENTS   7

Part 1        Preliminary

1           Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2011 (No. 8).

2.          Commencement

These Rules commence on:

(a) 20 September 2011; or

(b) if registered after 20 September 2011, the day after registration.

3.          Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2010

Schedules A, B and C amend the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2010 as amended.

Schedule A - Amendments

[1]         Schedule 2, Clause 2 Minimum benefit, Table:

Delete:

Northern Territory   $303

Insert:

Northern Territory   $313

[2]         Schedule 3, Subclause 2(2) Minimum benefit, Table 1:

Delete:

Schedule 3, Subclause 2(2) Minimum benefit, Table 1

Insert:  

Table 1

Public hospitals	Band 1	Band 2	Band 3	Band 4
NSW	$226	$253	$279	$313
ACT	$226	$253	$279	$313
Northern Territory	$226	$258	$300	$313
Queensland	$233.50	$261	$287	$320
South Australia	$226	$258	$285	$313
Tasmania	$219	$261	$303	$350
Victoria	$221	$262	$305	$350
Western Australia	$243	$243	$243	$243

[3]      Schedule 4, Clause 6 Minimum benefit, Table 1:

Delete:

Queensland   $98.50

Insert:

Queensland   $102.00

Delete:

South Australia   $103.00

Insert:

South Australia   $106.00

Delete:

Tasmania   $118.05

Insert:

Tasmania   $121.30

[4]      Schedule 4, Clause 6 Minimum benefit, Table 2:

Delete:

Private hospitals   $61.90

Insert:

Private hospitals   $60.55

Schedule B - Amendments

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

Delete:

36650, 39133

[2]         Schedule 3, Part 2, Subclause 5(1) Non-band specific Type B day procedures

After:

             35688

Insert:

             36650

After:

             39118

Insert:

             39133

Schedule C ―Amendments

[1]         Schedule 5, Clause 4 Facilities, Table:

The table in Clause 4 of Schedule 5 of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit

Requirements) Rules 2010 is amended as set out below:

After:

Adelaide Eye & Laser Centre 215 Greenhill Road, EASTWOOD  SA 5063

Insert:

Adelaide Surgicentre 89 King William Street, KENT TOWN  SA  5067

After:  

Knox Private Hospital 262 Mountain Highway, WANTIRNA  VIC  3152

Insert:

La Trobe Private Hospital cnr Plenty Road and Kingsbury Drive, BUNDOORA  VIC  3083

Delete:

The CAPS Clinic 7 Phipps Close, DEAKIN  ACT  2600

After:

Toowong Private Hospital 496 Milton Road, TOOWONG  QLD  4066

Insert:                 

Toowoomba Hospice 57b O'Quinn Street, TOOWOOMBA  QLD  4350

After:

Skin Cancer Day Surgery 19 Cleveland Road, ASHWOOD  VIC  3147

Insert:

Sole Vita Surgery 7 Phipps Close, DEAKIN  ACT 2600

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 2010, which commenced on 29 January 2010.