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• Health Legislation Amendment (Pharmacy Location Arrangements) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: extend the operation of pharmacy location rules and their administration by the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (ACPA) to 30 June 2010; increase the membership of the ACPA to include a consumer representative; provide for a Ministerial discretionary power in relation to approval of a pharmacist; clarify the Secretary’s ability to approve more than one pharmacist to supply pharmaceutical benefits in respect of particular premises and the Minister’s power to determine conditions relating to premises applying to approval to supply pharmaceutical benefits; simplify the approval process for pharmacists wishing to expand or contract their premises; and make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  National Health Act 1953

  to: enable nurse practitioners and appropriately qualified and experienced midwives to request appropriate diagnostic imaging and pathology services for which Medicare benefits may be paid; and allow these health professionals to prescribe certain medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Medical Indemnity Act 2002

  ,

  Medicare Australia Act 1973

  and

  National Health Act 1953

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Medicare) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to introduce new safety-nets to cover 80 per cent of out-of-pocket costs incurred for out-of-hospital Medicare services above a specified threshold in a calendar year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Medical Practitioners' Qualifications and Other Measures) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jun 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: introduce a shared debt recovery scheme that provides that, where contractual or other arrangements exist between a practitioner and an employer or corporate entity, both may be held responsible for the repayment of a compliance debt; and clarify that the jurisdiction of the Professional Services Review extends to officers of organisations that engage Medicare practitioners as contractors;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  in relation to record-keeping requirements, administrative penalties and debt-recovery arrangements; and

  National Health Act 1953

  to: enable the recovery of certain statutory debts by giving a garnishee notice; and introduce requirements for pharmacists to provide documents to substantiate claims. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Gap Cover Schemes) Bill 2000

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  Date

  17 Feb 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Summary

  print No. 0001021 used 

  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 (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 (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 (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