Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 6)

I, Tracey Duffy, delegate of the Minister for Health, make these Rules under item 4 of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007. 

Dated  16 November 2017

Tracey Duffy

Assistant Secretary

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health

Contents

PART 1  PRELIMINARY

1. Name of Rules

2. Commencement

3. Authority 3

4. Schedules

SCHEDULE 1             4

SCHEDULE 2             5

Part 1 Preliminary

1.                      Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules 2017 (No. 6).

2.                      Commencement

 (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.

Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

3.                      Authority

These Rules are made under item 4 of the table to section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4.                      Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules 2017 (No. 2)

[1]         Schedule, Part A, Specialist Orthopaedic, billing code DD005 (column headed Min benefit)

Omit “1325”, substitute “3969”.

Schedule 2 – Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules 2017 (No. 2)

[1]  Schedule, Part A, Specialist Orthopaedic, billing code DD005

Repeal the entry for billing code DD005.

[2]         Schedule, Part A, Specialist Orthopaedic, after entry for billing code BI884

Insert the contents of Item 1 of the table.