Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 8) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 8)

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

30 November 2016

Contents

PART 1PRELIMINARY3

1 Name of Rules 3

2. Commencement 3

3. Authority 3

4. Schedule3

Schedule

– Amendments4

Part 1Preliminary

1.

Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 8).

2.Commencement

This instrument commences on 1 December 2016.

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 Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

1. 1

   Schedule 1, Part 2 – Type A Procedures, Clause 4 Advanced surgical patient, Subclause (3)

   Delete the following:

   ‘45201’

   ‘45202’

2. 2

   Schedule 1, Part 2 – Type A Procedures, Clause 6 Surgical patient, Subclause (3)

   After ‘45200’ insert ‘45201’

   After ‘45201’ insert ‘45202’

3. 3

   Schedule 3, Part 3 – Type C Procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 2 – Diagnostic procedures and investigations, D1

After ‘11218’ insert ‘11219’

After ‘11219’ insert ‘11220’