Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules (No. 4) 2019

I, Karen Binnekamp, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following Rules.

Dated 14 June 2019

Karen Binnekamp

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules 2019 (No.1)

1  Name

  This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Amendment Rules (No. 4) 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 2019 (No. 1)

1        Rule 4 (definition of accredited podiatric surgeon)

Repeal the definition (including the note).

2        Rule 4

Insert:

registered podiatric surgeon means a podiatric surgeon who holds specialist registration in the specialty of podiatric surgery under the National Law.

Note The registration requirements for a registered podiatric surgeon for the purpose of these Rules are the same registration requirements for podiatric surgeons as set out in rule 8 of the Private Health Insurance (Accreditation) Rules as made from time to time.

3        Paragraph 7(a)

Omit “an accredited podiatric surgeon”, substitute “a registered podiatric surgeon”

4        Rule 13

Repeal the rule (not including the note), substitute:

 13. Listing criteria for prostheses to be listed in Part C of Schedule 1

For a listing application to be granted to list a kind of prosthesis in Part C of Schedule 1, 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 catheter cardiac ablation;

(vi)         a patch for cardiac ablation;

(vii)      a monopolar device for surgical cardiac ablation;

(viii)    a bipolar device for surgical cardiac ablation;

(ix)         a system for surgical cardiac ablation; or

(x)           a probe for surgical cardiac ablation.