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Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 5)

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Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 5) 1
 
I, DAVID WOOTTON, 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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
____________________________________
 
David Wootton
Acting Assistant Secretary
Private Health Insurance Branch
Medical Benefits Division
Department of Health
23 October 2014
 
 

Contents
 
 
PART 1            PRELIMINARY   3
 
1           Name of Rules  3
2.          Commencement 3
3.          Authority  3
4.          Schedule                                                                                                3
 
 
Schedule A – Amendments  4
 
Part 1        Preliminary
 
1.               Name of Rules
 
These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2014 (No. 5).
 
2.               Commencement
 
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

Provisions
Commencement

1.  Section 1 to 2
1 November 2014

2.  Section 3
1 January 2015

3.  Sections 4 to 7
1 November 2014

 
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
 
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 A – Amendments
 
Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
 
1         Schedule 1, Part 2 Type A procedures, Clause 6 Surgical patient, subclause (3)
 
             After “35533” insert “35534”
 
2         Schedule 3, Part 2 Type B procedures, Clause 5 Non-band specific Type B day procedures, subclause (1)
 
             After “18375” insert “18379”      
 
3         Schedule 3, Part 2 Type B procedures, Clause 5 Non-band specific Type B day procedures, subclause (1)
 
After “60000” insert “60001”
              
             After “60003” insert “60004”
            
             After “60006” insert “60007”
 
After “60009” insert “60010”
 
After “60012” insert “60013”
              
             After “60015” insert “60016”
            
             After “60018” insert “60019”
 
After “60021” insert “60022”
 
After “60024” insert “60025”
              
             After “60027” insert “60028”
            
             After “60030” insert “60031”
 
After “60033” insert “60034”
 
After “60036” insert “60037”
              
             After “60039” insert “60040”
            
             After “60042” insert “60043”
 
After “60045” insert “60046”
 
After “60048” insert “60049”
              
             After “60051” insert “60052”
            
             After “60054” insert “60055”
 
After “60057” insert “60058”
 
After “60060” insert “60061”
 
After “60063” insert “60064”
              
             After “60066” insert “60067”
            
             After “60069” insert “60070”
 
After “60072” insert “60073”
 
After “60075” insert “60076”
              
             After “60078” insert “60079”
 
4         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 5 Diagnostic Imaging Services, I5
 
After “63560” insert “63740, 63741, 63743, 63744, 63746 63747”
5         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 3 Therapeutic procedures, T11
 
After “18354” delete “18356 18358”
 
6         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8, Interpretation, Category 6 – Pathology services, P2
 
             After “66596” delete “66599 66602”
 
             After “66607” delete “66608 66609”
            
After “66832” insert “66833 66834 66835 66836 66837 66838 66839 66840 66841”
 
7         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8, Interpretation, Category 6 – Pathology services, P7
 
             After “73324” delete “73328”
 
             After “73335” insert “73336 73337 73339 73340”
 
Notes
1.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.comlaw.gov.au