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

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

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

1  Name

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

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences the day after registration.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under item 4 of the table in 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 2018 (No. 2)

1  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.