Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 2007 - SECT 121.10

  (1)   General treatment is treatment (including the provision of goods and services) that:

  (a)   is intended to manage or prevent a disease, injury or condition; and

  (b)   is not * hospital treatment.

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), general treatment includes any other treatment, or treatment included in a class of treatments, specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules for the purposes of this subsection.

  (2A)   Despite paragraph   (1)(b), general treatment also includes benefits for travel or accommodation relating to hospital treatment.

  (3)   Despite subsections   (1), (2) and (2A), neither of the following is * general treatment:

  (a)   the rendering in Australia of a service for which * medicare benefit is payable, unless the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules provide otherwise;

  (b)   any other treatment, or treatment included in a class of treatments, specified in the Private Health Insurance (Health Insurance Business) Rules for the purposes of this paragraph.