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• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review) Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Health Reform Amendment (Administrator and National Health Funding Body) Bill 2012, the bill: responds to the Full Federal Court decision in

  Kutlu v Director of Professional Services Review

  (2011) 197 FCR 177 by validating certain acts; and amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  in relation to: the judgments in

  Daniel v Health Insurance Commission and Others

  (2003) 200 ALR 379 and

  Kelly v Daniel

  (2004) 134 FCR 64 by requiring the Chief Executive Medicare to request the Director of Professional Services Review to review services by a person if the services have been provided in circumstances that constitute a prescribed pattern of services; allied health practitioners; the meaning of service; the extension of time in certain circumstances for final reports and determinations; the Professional Services Review Committee or Determining Authority not continuing an investigation in certain circumstances; the date of effect for final determinations; referrals to the Medicare Participation Review Committee; referrals to appropriate regulatory bodies; disqualified practitioners; details to be included in patient referrals; and technical amendments consequent on the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Provider Number Review) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to vary the frequency of reviews of the operation of the Medicare provider number legislation from two years to five years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Rural and Remote Area Medical Practitioners) Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Commission Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Australian Community Pharmacy Authority and Private Health Insurance) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  to extend the operation of the Pharmacy Location Rules and the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority to 30 June 2015; and

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  in relation to lifetime health cover and new migrants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Australian Community Pharmacy Authority) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  to extend, until 31 December 2005, the existing arrangements for approving pharmacists to supply Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines; and

  Health Legislation Amendment (Podiatric Surgery and Other Matters) Act 2004

  to correct a misdescription. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching and Other Matters) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Oct 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable information held by the Chief Executive Medicare (CEM) to be subject to data-matching for the purposes of ensuring the integrity of medicare programs including the Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; and enable the CEM to authorise a Commonwealth entity to carry out data matching for the same purposes on the CEM’s behalf; four Acts to make consequential amendments; and the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to enable services involving a professional attendance provided under certain laws administered by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to be considered for a prescribed pattern of services, but not unacceptable conduct, for the purposes of the Professional Services Review scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

  ,

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012

  to change the name of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record system to the My Health Record system;

  Copyright Act 1968

  ,

  Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

  ,

  Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012

  and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: trial opt-out arrangements in selected regions and enable opt-out to occur nationally if the trials are successful; abolish the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record Jurisdictional Advisory Committee and Independent Advisory Council; revise the way that permissions to collect, use and disclose information are presented; create new civil and criminal penalties and provide that enforceable undertakings and injunctions are available in both the healthcare identifiers service or the My Health Record system; clarify that information about healthcare provider organisations is not personal information; clarify that health-related disability, palliative care and aged care services are considered health services; and clarify mandatory data breach notification requirements for participants in the system; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Gap Cover Schemes) Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Summary

  print No. 0001021 used 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum