Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules (No. 3) 2019
I, Julianne Quaine, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following Rules.
Dated 28 February 2019
Julianne Quaine
Assistant Secretary
Office of Health Technology Assessment
Technology Assessment and Access Division
Department of Health
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules 2019 (No. 1)
This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules (No. 3) 2019.
This instrument commences immediately after the commencement of the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2019.
This instrument is made under item 4 of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules 2019 (No. 1)
1 Schedule 1, Part C, billing code BS359
Repeal the entry for billing code BS359
2 Schedule 1, Part C, after entry for Billing Code SJ407
Insert subheading Boston Scientific
under that subheading insert subheading Boston Scientific Australia Pty Ltd
under that subheading insert the contents of Item 1 of the table:
Item | Billing code | Product | Description | Size | Minimum Benefit | Condition |
1 | BS359 | IntellaMap™ Orion High Resolution Mapping Catheter | High resolution 64-electrode steerable mapping catheter | 8.5F, 115cm | $3,400.00 | The prosthesis is only to be used in a surgical procedure described in item 38290 in Group T8 of the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2018. |