Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 1) (Cth)

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Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 1)

I, TRACEY DUFFY, 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.

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Tracey Duffy

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health

11 March 2015

Contents

PART 1PRELIMINARY3

1 Name of Rules 3

2. Commencement 3

3. Authority 3

4. Schedule3

Schedule AAmendments4

SCHEDULE B – AMENDMENTS5

Part 1Preliminary

1.

Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 1).

2.Commencement

These Rules commence on:

  1. (a)

    20 March 2016; or

  2. (b)

    If registered after 20 March 2016, the day after registration.

3.Authority

These Rules are made under item 3A of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4.Schedule

  1. Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule A ― Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

[1]Schedule 4 – Nursing-home type patient accommodation: hospitals in all States/Territories, Clause 6 Minimum benefit, Table 1

Delete the table and insert:

Public hospital: State/Territory

Minimum benefit per night

NSW

$ 119.65

Northern Territory $ 90.69

Queensland $ 117.00

South Australia $ 115.00

Tasmania $ 138.80

Victoria $ 127.00

ACT $ 117.65

Western Australia $ 138.10

[2]Schedule 4 – Nursing-home type patient accommodation: hospitals in all States/Territories, Clause 6 Minimum benefit, Table 2:

Delete:

Private hospitals $ 53.75

Insert:

Private hospitals $ 53.25

Schedule B ― Amendments

[3]Schedule 5 – Second-tier default benefits, Clause 4. Facilities, subclause (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 2016 (No.1) commence.

Notes

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

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