Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules 2019 (Cth)

Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules 2019

I, Julianne Quaine, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following Rules.

Dated 15 February 2019

Julianne Quaine

Assistant Secretary

Office of Health Technology Assessment

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health

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1Name

This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules 2019.

2Commencement

This instrument commences the day after registration.

3Authority

This instrument is made under item 4 of the table in section 333-20 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules 2018 (No. 2)

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Rule 13

Repeal rule, substitute:

13. Listing criteria for prostheses to be listed in Part C of the Schedule

For a listing application to be granted to list a kind of prosthesis in Part C of the Schedule, the listing criterion is that the kind of prosthesis is:

(i) an insulin infusion pump;

(ii) an implantable cardiac event recorder;

(iii) a cardiac home/remote monitoring system;

(iv) a cardiac ablation catheter;

(v) a mapping catheter for cardiac ablation; or

(vi) a patch for cardiac ablation.