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Private Health Insurance Incentive (Form and Period of Notification) Determination

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This Determination sets out the paperwork rules for private health insurers when they need to tell the government about certain notices they receive from their members.

Under the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998, health funds must notify the Health Insurance Commission when a member (called a "registered person") gives them a notice under section 11-30 (which typically relates to claiming government rebates or incentives for private health cover).

This instrument specifies two things:

How: The notice must be sent by electronic transmission or facsimile (fax)
When: The health fund must send the notice within 28 days of receiving it from the member

This is purely administrative — it's about the mechanics of how insurers report to the government, not about who gets rebates or how much they receive.

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Private Health Insurance Incentive (Form and Period of Notification) Determination

Commonwealth of Australia

Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998

Private Health Insurance Incentive
(Form and Period of Notification) Determination

(PHIIA 11-35/1/1999)

I, Jeffrey Allan Harmer, Managing Director of the Health Insurance Commission, make the following Determination under subsection 11-35 of the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

Dated this 22nd day of December 1999.

J Harmer

Managing Director of Health Insurance Commission

Citation

This Determination may be cited as the Private Health Insurance Incentives (Form and Period of Notification) Determination.

Commencement

This Determination is to commence on 1 January 2000.

Interpretation

In this Determination:

“Act” means the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

“health fund” has the same meaning as assigned in the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

“registered person” has the same meaning as assigned in the Private Health Insurance Incentives Act 1998.

Form of Notification

For the purposes of section 11-35 of the Act, the notice must be in the form of either an electronic transmission or facsimile transmission.

Period of Notification

For the purposes of section 11-35 of the Act, a health fund must notify the Health Insurance Commission within twenty-eight days of a notice given to it by a registered person under section 11-30 of the Act.

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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