Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 1)

I, GARETH SEBAR, 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 9 May 2013

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Gareth Sebar

Assistant Secretary

Financing and Analysis Branch

Acute Care Division

Department of Health and Ageing

Contents

PART 1            PRELIMINARY   3

1              Name of Rules  3

2.             Commencement  3

3.             Authority   3

4.             Schedule                                                                                                  3

Schedule – Amendments  4

Part 1        Preliminary

1.               Name of Rules

These Rules are the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Amendment Rules 2013 (No. 1).

2.               Commencement

These Rules commence on 1 July 2013.

3.               Authority

These rules are made under item 6 of the table in section 333-20 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4.               Schedule

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 – Amendments

Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules 2010

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 Financing and Analysis Branch of the Department of Health and Ageing on 9 May 2013 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 Financing and Analysis Branch of the Department of Health and Ageing on 9 May 2013 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.