Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00198:reg:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00198
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 4052–7107

4  Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
                  (a) complying health insurance policy;
                  (b) cost‑recovery fee;
                  (c) hospital‑substitute treatment;
                  (d) hospital treatment;
                  (e) human tissue product;
                  (f) medical device;
                  (g) medicare benefit.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Private Health Insurance Act 2007.
active implantable medical device has the same meaning as in the Therapeutic Goods (Medical Devices) Regulations 2002.
certified overnight Type C procedure has the same meaning as in the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011.
certified Type C procedure has the same meaning as in the Private Health Insurance (Benefit Requirements) Rules 2011.
clinical assessment fee means the fee for the assessment made under subsection 17(1).
consultant physician has the same meaning as in the Health Insurance Act 1973.
default minimum benefit has the meaning given by subsection 8(7).
economic assessment fee means the fee for the assessment made under subsection 18(1).
former Prescribed List means Schedule 1 to the Private Health Insurance (Medical Devices and Human Tissue Products) Rules (No. 2) 2024 (as in force immediately before that instrument was repealed).
full health technology assessment pathway fee means the fee for the assessment made under subsection 19(1).
implantable cardiac event recorder includes a component of an implantable cardiac event recorder.
implantable medical device has the same meaning as in the Therapeutic Goods (Medical Devices) Regulations 2002.
insulin infusion pump includes a component of an insulin infusion pump.
listed item means a kind of medical device, or a kind of human tissue product, that is listed in Schedule 1.
listing application has the meaning given by subsection 72‑10(6) of the Act.
listing criteria has the meaning given by subsection 72‑10(6) of the Act.
MSAC means the body known as the Medical Services Advisory Committee.
National Law means:
 (a) for a Territory or a State other than Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld) as it applies (with or without modification) as law of the State or Territory, as in force at the commencement of this instrument; or
 (b) for Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010, so far as that Act corresponds to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld).
private hospital means a hospital in respect of which there is in force a statement under subsection 121‑5(8) of the Act that the hospital is a private hospital.
professional attendance has the same meaning as in clause 1.2.5 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance (General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2021.
professional service