Bill
Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Amendment Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-06-25. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-05-27
- second reading — 2015-05-27
- second reading — 2015-06-15
- second reading — 2015-06-15
- third reading — 2015-06-15
- introduced — 2015-06-16
- second reading — 2015-06-16
- second reading — 2015-06-18
- second reading — 2015-06-18
- third reading — 2015-06-18
- passed — 2015-06-18
- royal assent — 2015-06-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-05-27.
The bill would change how the levy on joint replacement prostheses is calculated.
Instead of being based on how many prostheses a sponsor lists, the levy would be based on how often a sponsor's prostheses are recorded as provided to patients.
The maximum levy for any one prosthesis in a financial year would remain $5,000, and the bill would start the day after Royal Assent.
- Removes the current restriction that the levy rate must be based on the number of prostheses listed on the Prostheses Rules.
- Provides that the levy is imposed on the recording of the provision of a joint replacement prosthesis on the National Joint Replacement Register.
- Allows the levy rate to take into account the number of times a kind of prosthesis is recorded in a particular period.
Sponsors of joint replacement prostheses, who are typically manufacturers or distributors, would be affected.
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