A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
Bills introduced to Parliament are scrutinised to make sure they meet certain standards and to consider whether they should be referred to a committee for further investigation. This can include feedback from stakeholders and the general public, and a report recommending potential improvements to the bill.
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17 Sep 2009
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medicare Australia to require certain documents to be produced by a medical practitioner during a compliance audit; and provide that a practitioner unable to substantiate an amount paid for a service may be liable to pay a penalty.
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17 Nov 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia to require certain documents to be produced by a medical practitioner during a compliance audit; and provide that a practitioner unable to substantiate an amount paid for a service may be liable to pay a penalty.
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12 Jun 2020
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: continue the Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner beyond 1 July 2020; and amend the functions of the office.
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29 Mar 2007
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: establish a legislative framework to enable the introduction of an accreditation scheme for practices providing diagnostic imaging services covered by the Radiology Quality and Outlays Memorandum of Understanding; and allow for the extension of accreditation schemes to other diagnostic imaging services in the future.
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25 Nov 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation) Act 2007
to: broaden the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme to require practices providing non-radiology services, or a combination of radiology and non-radiology services, to obtain accreditation; and provide transitional arrangements.
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30 Jun 1999
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Aged Care Portfolio
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bill file has old bill number
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11 Dec 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
in relation to payment of Medicare benefits for diagnostic imaging services. Also contains application and transitional provisions.
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26 Aug 2021
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable eligible legacy scheme participants to apply for an extended compliance determination to allow them an additional period of time to complete their return of service obligation; allow a person, in the event of serious disability or death, to cease to be a bonded participant under the program, without penalty; apply administrative penalties when bonded participants fail to produce information or documents within prescribed timeframes; and enable administration of inadvertent and minor breaches of Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship contracts with the Commonwealth.
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28 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to enable the minister to determine, by legislative instrument, the maximum increase of benefit payable under the Extended Medicare Safety Net for specified Medicare Benefits Schedule items.
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27 Jun 2012
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable the Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) benefit caps to apply where more than one Medicare service is performed on the same patient on the same occasion and is deemed to be ‘one professional service’; and enable the Chief Executive Medicare to determine the manner in which families confirm the composition of their family for Medicare Safety Net and EMSN purposes.
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