Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 1) (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 1)

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

Tracey Duffy

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health

15 March 2017

Contents

PART

1PRELIMINARY

SCHEDULE - AMENDMENTS4

Part 1Preliminary

1.Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 1).

2.Commencement

This instrument commences on 20 March 2017.

3.Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015

The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015 as amended.

Schedule

Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules 2015

[1]Part 2 General, Paragraph 8A Benefit requirement – nursing home type patients (3)(a)

Delete subparagraph 8A(3)(a) and substitute:

1. (a)

   in relation to a nursing-home type patient at a public hospital, the following amount for the State or Territory in which the hospital is located:

2. (i)

   Australian Capital Territory - $57.85;

3. (ii)

   New South Wales - $58.80;

4. (iii)

   Northern Territory - $57.85;

5. (iv)

   Queensland - $58.80;

6. (v)

   South Australia - $58.80;

7. (vi)

   Tasmania - $58.80;

8. (vii)

   Victoria - $58.80; and

9. (viii)

   Western Australia - $58.80

[2]Part 2 General, Paragraph 8A Benefit requirement – nursing home type patients (3)(b)

Delete subparagraph 8A(3)(b) and substitute:

1. (b)

   in relation to a nursing-home type patient at a private hospital, $58.80.