Commonwealth of Australia
Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998
Private Health Insurance Incentive
(Form and Content of Notification) Determination
(PHIIA 11-20(2)/1/1999)
I, Jeffrey Allan Harmer, Managing Director of the Health Insurance Commission, make the following Determination under subsection 11-20(2) of the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1999.
JA Harmer
Managing Director of Health Insurance Commission
Citation
1. This Determination may be cited as the Private Health Insurance Incentives (Form
and Content of Notification) Determination.
Commencement
2. This Determination is taken to have commenced on 1 January 1999.
Interpretation
3. In this Determination:
“Act” means the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.
Form of Notification
4. For the purposes of subsection 11-20(2) of the Act, the notice must be in the form
of either an electronic transmission or facsimile transmission.
Content of Notification
5. For the purposes of subsection 11-20(2) of the Act, a notice from a health fund must
contain the following details:
(a) fund identification code;
(b) fund name;
(c) fund membership number of policy;
(d) membership type of policy;
(e) membership cover of policy;
(f) lodgement date of application;
(g) start date of premium reduction;
(h) end date of premium reduction;
(i) full name of applicant;
(j) gender of applicant;
(k) date of birth of applicant;
(l) Medicare card number of applicant;
(m) if applicant is covered by membership;
(n) applicants residential address;
(o) full name of each person covered by the policy;
(p) date of birth of each person covered by the policy;
(q) gender of each person covered by the policy; and
(r) whether any of the persons covered by the policy are dependants.