Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 1) (Cth)

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Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 1)1

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

Doug Fawns

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Doug Fawns

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Department of Health and Ageing

18 March 2013

Contents

Part 1Preliminary

1Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 20 13 (No. 1).

2.Commencement

These Rules commence on:

(a) 20 March 2013; or

(b) if registered after 20 March 2013, the day after registration.

3.Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

Schedules A, B and C amend the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 as amended.

Schedule A ― Amendments

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

Delete the table and insert:

Public hospital: State/Territory

Minimum benefit per night

NSW

$ 111.70

Northern Territory $ 77.47

Queensland $ 105.50

South Australia $108.00

Tasmania $128.50

Victoria $113.70

ACT $107.40

Western Australia $116.05

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

Delete:

Private hospitals $59.05

Insert:

Private hospitals $57.55

Schedule B ― Amendments

[1]Schedule 1, Part 2 Type A procedures, Clause 6 Surgical patient, subclause (3)

After “32021” insert “32023”

After “37233” insert “37245”

[2]Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 2 Diagnostic Procedures & Investigations, D1

After “11243” insert “11244”

Schedule C ― Amendments

[1]Schedule 5, Clause 4 Facilities, Paragraph (1)

Substitute

A hospital is a facility for the purposes of this Schedule if it is included in the list of second-tier eligible facilities approved by the Second Tier Advisory Committee existing at the time that the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 20 13 (No. 1) commence.

Notes

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.See

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