Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2025

I, Paul McBride, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make the following rules.

Dated, 30 July 2025 

Paul McBride 

Assistant Secretary 
Private Health Strategy Branch 
Health Systems Strategy Division  
Strategy and First Nations Group 
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Definitions...............................................1

5  Schedules................................................2

6  Complaints levy............................................2

7  Risk equalisation levy.........................................2

8  National joint replacement register levy..............................2

9  Medical devices and human tissue products levy.........................2

10  Rate of late payment penalty....................................2

Schedule 1—Repeals 3

Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015 3

1  Name

This instrument is the Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2025.

2  Commencement

1.     Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1.     Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument

3  Authority

This instrument is made under the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) complaints levy;

(b) late payment penalty;

(c) medical devices and human tissue products levy;

(d) national joint replacement register levy;

(e) risk equalisation levy.

In this instrument:

Act means the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.

complaints levy day has the meaning given by the Private Health Insurance (Complaints Levy) Act 1995.

listed item has the meaning given as a levy imposition day for the purposes of subsection 4.

5  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.

6  Complaints levy 

For paragraph 307-1 (1) (b) of the Act, the payment day for complaints levy imposed on a complaints levy day is the 31 December immediately after the complaints levy day.

7  Risk equalisation levy

For paragraph 307-1 (1) (b) of the Act, the payment day for risk equalisation levy imposed on a risk equalisation levy day is 14 days after that day.

 Note: Risk equalisation levy is imposed on the 21st day of the second month of each quarter ending on the last day of March, June, September or December in a financial year.

8  National joint replacement register levy

For paragraph 307-1 (1) (b) of the Act, the payment day for national joint replacement register levy imposed on a national joint replacement register levy day is 21 days after that day.

Note:  The Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Rule 2015 specifies the national joint replacement register levy imposition day.

9  Medical devices and human tissue products levy

1.     For subsection 307-30(2) of the Act, medical devices and human tissue products levy imposed for a financial year in relation to a listed item is payable by the person mentioned for the listed item in Schedule 1 to the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules in force on the medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day in respect of that financial year.
2.     For paragraph 307-1(1)(b) of the Act, the payment day for medical devices and human tissue products levy imposed on a medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day is 28 days after that day.

Note: The Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products Levy) Rules 2025 specify the medical devices and human tissue products levy imposition day.

10  Rate of late payment penalty

For paragraph 307-5 (2) (a) of the Act, the rate of late payment penalty is 15% per year.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument Private Health Insurance (Levy Administration) Rules 2015.