Private Health Insurance (Lifetime Health Cover) Rules 2017
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7. Permitted days―suspended hospital cover
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For paragraph 34-20 (1) (a) of the Act, if the rules of a private health insurer provide for suspension of hospital cover for a policy holder, suspension may be granted by the insurer concerned on the request of the policy holder.
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If an adult obtains hospital cover from a private health insurer (the new private health insurer) at a time when the person has suspended hospital cover granted by another private health insurer, the new private health insurer must recognise, for the purposes of the Act, that the person has existing hospital cover.
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Subrule (2) does not apply to hospital cover that has been suspended for a continuous period of more than 2 years.