Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 4) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 4)

I, MARIA JOLLY, 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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Maria Jolly

First Assistant Secretary

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health

26 May 2017

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 2017 (No. 4).

2.Commencement

These Rules commence on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.

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 Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

   After ‘41617’ insert ‘41618’

2. 2

   Schedule 1, Part 2 – Type A procedures, Clause 6 Surgical patient

   After ‘42704’ insert ‘42705’

3. 3

   Schedule 3, Part 2 – Type B procedures, Clause 5 Non-band specific Type B day procedures

   After ‘41509’ delete ‘41618’

4. 4

   Schedule 3, Part 3 – Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation – Category 3 – Therapeutic procedures, T8

   After ‘30219’ insert ‘30406’