Private Health Insurance Act 2007

CHAPTER 4 - HEALTH INSURANCE BUSINESS, HEALTH BENEFITS FUNDS AND MISCELLANEOUS OBLIGATIONS OF PRIVATE HEALTH INSURERS  

PART 4-4 - HEALTH BENEFITS FUNDS  

Division 131 - Health benefits funds  

SECTION 131-15   MEANING OF HEALTH-RELATED BUSINESS  

131-15(1)    
Health-related business is business that is any one or more of the following:

(a)    a business of providing goods or services (or both) in order to manage or prevent diseases, injuries or conditions;

(b)    a business of undertaking liability, by way of insurance, to indemnify people who are ^[*]

To find definitions of asterisked terms, see the Dictionary in Schedule 1 .

ineligible for Medicare for costs associated with providing treatment, goods or services that:

(i) are provided to those people in Australia; and

(ii) are provided to manage or prevent diseases, injuries or conditions;

(c)    a business of providing a financial service to assist people insured under ^[*]

To find definitions of asterisked terms, see the Dictionary in Schedule 1 .

complying health insurance products to meet the costs associated with treatment, goods or services that are provided to manage or prevent diseases, injuries or conditions;

(d)    any other business, or business included in a class of businesses, specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Benefits Fund Policy) Rules for the purposes of this paragraph.

131-15(2)    
Despite subsection (1) , neither of the following is health-related business :

(a)    business that is ^[*]

To find definitions of asterisked terms, see the Dictionary in Schedule 1 .

health insurance business; or

(b)    any other business, or business included in a class of businesses, specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Benefits Fund Policy) Rules for the purposes of this paragraph.