Private hospitals
7 Private hospitals
For the purposes of the definition of private hospital in section 3(1) of the Act, the following are health services of a prescribed kind or kinds—
medical health services;
surgical health services;
speciality health services for the provision of one or more of the following—
alcohol or drug withdrawal (detoxification—acute phase);
anaesthesia;
bariatric procedures;
cardiac catheterisation;
cardiac surgery;
cataract surgery;
emergency medicine;
endoscopy;
intensive care;
liposuction (removing in total at least 200 ml of lipoaspirate);
mental health services;
neonatal services (provided to patients aged 28 days and under when admitted);
neurosurgery;
obstetrics;
oncology (chemotherapy);
oncology (radiation therapy);
oocyte retrieval;
paediatric services (provided to patients aged at least 28 days and under 18 years when admitted);
renal dialysis;
specialist rehabilitation services.
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