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Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2012 (No. 7)

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Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2012 (No. 7)[1]
 
I, DOUG FAWNS, 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.
 
 
 
____________________________________
Doug Fawns
Assistant Secretary
Private Health Insurance Branch
Medical Benefits Division
Department of Health and Ageing
26 October 2012
 
 
 

Contents
 
 
Part 1           Preliminary    3
 
1       Name of Rules  3
2.      Commencement 3
3.      Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011  3
 
 
Schedule   Amendments   4
 
Part 1        Preliminary
1           Name of Rules
These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Amendment Rules 2012 (No. 7).
2.          Commencement
These Rules commence on:
(a) 1 November 2012; or
(b) if registered after 1 November 2012, the day after registration.
3.          Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011
The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011 as amended.
 
Schedule―Amendments
 
[1]         Schedule 1, Part 2 Type A procedures, Clause 4 Advanced surgical patient, subclause (3)
 
Delete “$837.05” substitute “$852.95”
 
Delete “42731”
 
After “48692” insert “48694”
 
[2]         Schedule 1, Part 2 Type A procedures, Clause 6 Surgical patient, subclause (3)
 
             Delete “$249.26 to $837.05” substitute “$254.00 to $852.95”
 
Delete “42560”
 
Delete “42566”
 
Delete “42722”
 
             Delete “42771”
 
[3]         Schedule 3, Part 2 Type B procedures, Clause 5 Non-band specific Type B day procedures, subclause (1)
 
After “30660” insert “30687”
 
[4]         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 2 Diagnostic Procedures & Investigations, D1
 
Delete “11203”
 
             Delete “             11212”
 
 
 
[5]         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 5 Diagnostic Imaging Services, I5 
 
After “63476” insert “63482”
 
After “63497” insert “63507, 63510, 63513, 63516, 63519, 63522, 63525, 63526, 63527, 63528, 63529, 63530”
 
[6]         Schedule 3, Part 3 Type C procedures, Clause 8 Interpretation, Category 6 Pathology Services, P7  
 
After “73332” insert “73333, 73334, 73335”
 
 
NOTE

[1] All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au