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• Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Safety-nets) Bill 2005

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  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to increase the extended Medicare safety net threshold from $300 to $500 for concession card holders and families in receipt of Family Tax Benefit Part A, and from $700 to $1000 for all other families and individuals, with effect from 1 January 2006. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (New Zealand Overseas Trained Doctors) Bill 2010

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  Date

  21 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: enable certain New Zealand permanent resident and citizen doctors to provide professional services that attract Medicare benefits without being subject to a ten year waiting period (the ‘moratorium’ period); remove the requirement for overseas trained doctors to have both Australian permanent residency or citizenship and medical registration before the moratorium period commences; and provide for a 90 day period in which medical practitioners can appeal against a refusal for an exemption from the moratorium period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010

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  Date

  20 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to allow patients to take a pathology request to an approved pathology practitioner or authority of their choice. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010

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  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to allow patients to take a pathology request to an approved pathology practitioner or authority of their choice. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review and Other Matters) Bill 2002

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  Date

  27 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: clarify the intended operation of the Professional Services Review (PSR) Scheme and address certain issues identified by the Federal Court; validate investigative and adjudicative referrals currently under consideration by PSR committees to the extent that the matters referred relate to particular specified conduct or services; amend the age of access to services under the Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Scheme; remove redundant definitions relating to health care and pensioner concession cards; and

  Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review) Act 1999

  to clarify the transitional provisions in that Act relating to production of documents and obtaining information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review) Bill 2010

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  Date

  17 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  In response to recommendations of the 2007

  Review of the Professional Services Review Scheme - Report of the Steering Committee

  and issues raised by

  Daniel v Health Insurance Commission

  [2003] FCA 772, the bill amends the Health Insurance Act 1973 in relation to the administration of the Professional Services Review Scheme and the Medicare Participation Review Committee. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review) Bill 2012

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  Date

  09 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Passed Both Houses 

  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

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  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 (Revival of Table Items) Bill 2009

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  Date

  28 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CORMANN, Sen Mathias;FIELDING, Sen Steve;XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to provide that if an item in the general medical services table is disallowed under the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  , the corresponding item in the previous regulations is taken to apply from the time of disallowance. 

  Bill

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

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  Date

  31 Aug 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum