Private Health Insurance Act 2007

CHAPTER 3 - COMPLYING HEALTH INSURANCE PRODUCTS  

PART 3-4 - OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO COMPLYING HEALTH INSURANCE PRODUCTS  

Division 93 - Giving information to consumers  

SECTION 93-15   GIVING INFORMATION TO NEWLY INSURED PEOPLE  

93-15(1)    
A private health insurer must ensure that, when an [*]

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adult first becomes insured under a [*]

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complying health insurance policy of the insurer, the adult is given:

(a)    an [*]

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up to date copy of the [*]

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private health information statement for the [*]

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product subgroup that the policy belongs to, by a method (if any) set out in the Private Health Insurance (Complying Product) Rules; and

(b)    details about what the policy [*]

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covers and how benefits provided under it are worked out; and

(c)    a statement identifying the [*]

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health benefits fund to which the policy is referable.

93-15(2)    
If more than one [*]

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adult becomes insured under a single [*]

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complying health insurance policy of a private health insurer, the insurer is taken to comply with subsection (1) if the insurer complies with that subsection in relation to only one of those adults.

 

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