Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Amendment Rules 2019

I, SHANE PORTER, Delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following Rules.

Dated        6 June 2019   

Shane Porter

Assistant Secretary
Data Informatics and Analytics Branch
Department of Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

 Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2018 2

1  Name

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

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 July 2019.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under item 6 of the table in subsection 333-20(1) 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2018

1 Subrule 4(2)

Repeal the subrule, substitute

(2) In this rule, HCP Data from Hospitals to Insurers means the protocol set out in the document approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Data Informatics and Analytics Branch of the Department of Health on 6 June 2019 which consists of “Data Specifications (HCP)” and “Explanatory Notes (HCP)”, and sets out the data specifications for data provided by hospitals to private health insurers.

2 Subrule 7(3)

Repeal the subrule, substitute

(3) In this rule, PHDB Data from Private Hospitals to the Department means the protocol set out in the document approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Data Informatics and Analytics Branch of the Department of Health on 6 June 2019 which consists of “Data Specifications (PHDB)” and “Explanatory Notes (PHDB)”, and sets out the data specifications for data provided by private hospitals to the Department.