Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2023 (Cth)

Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2023

I, Andrew Rintoul, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Rules.

Dated 27 July 2023

Andrew Rintoul

A/g Assistant Secretary

Private Health Strategy Branch

Benefits Integrity Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

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1Name

This instrument is thePrivate Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2023.

2Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 333-20(1) of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011

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Clause 2 of Schedule 3 (Table 2)

Repeal the table (including the heading), substitute:

Table 2‑ Same day accommodation for private patients at private hospitals in all States/Territories
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Private hospitals	Band 1	Band 2	Band 3	Band 4
All States and Territories	$264	$332	$403	$472