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These rules amend the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010 to give effect to the revised HCP Data from Hospitals to Insurers and the PHDB Data from Private Hospitals to the Department documents. These documents replace the documents that were referred to in the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010.
Administered by: Health
Registered 21 May 2012
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR23-May-2012
Tabled Senate18-Jun-2012
Date of repeal 19 Mar 2014
Repealed by Health (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2014
Table of contents.

 

Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Amendment Rules 2012

 

I, RICHARD MAGOR, delegate of the Minister for Health, make these Rules under item 6 of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

 

 

 

Dated 13 May 2012

 

 

 

 

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Richard Magor

Assistant Secretary

Private Health Insurance Branch

Medical Benefits Division

Department of Health and Ageing

 

 

 


Contents

 

 

PART 1            PRELIMINARY   3

 

1              Name of Rules  3

2.             Commencement  3

3.             Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010           3

 

 

Schedule Amendments  4

 

 

 


Part 1        Preliminary

 

1.               Name of Rules

 

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Amendment Rules 2012.

 

2.               Commencement

 

These Rules commence on 1 November 2012.

 

3.               Amendment of the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010

 

The Schedule amends the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010.


Schedule – Amendments

 

 

[1]      Part 2 Hospitals, subrule 4(2)

 

Delete subrule 4(2) and insert:

 

(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 Private Health Insurance Branch of the Department of Health and Ageing on 13 May 2012 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]      Part 2 Hospitals, subrule 7(3)

            

Delete subrule 7(3) and insert:

 

(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 Private Health Insurance Branch of the Department of Health and Ageing on 13 May 2012 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note

1.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au

 

2.       These Rules amend the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010, which commenced on 1 July 2010.