Bill
Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-06-29. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-05-23
- second reading — 2018-05-23
- second reading — 2018-06-19
- second reading — 2018-06-19
- committee — 2018-06-19
- third reading — 2018-06-19
- introduced — 2018-06-21
- second reading — 2018-06-21
- second reading — 2018-06-21
- second reading — 2018-06-28
- third reading — 2018-06-28
- passed — 2018-06-28
- royal assent — 2018-06-29
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 2018-05-23.
This bill would help the government recover more money that was overpaid to health practitioners through Medicare and related schemes.
It would give the government stronger tools to take money from future payments to practitioners who owe debts, and standardise record-keeping rules for doctors, pharmacists and dentists.
From July 2019, large practices and corporations that bill on behalf of practitioners could also be held responsible for repaying incorrect claims.
- Strengthens the government's ability to recover Medicare debts by allowing it to redirect future bulk-billed payments and garnish other funds owed to practitioners.
- Makes the rules for keeping and providing documents the same for all health professionals under the three main health payment schemes.
- Introduces a Shared Debt Recovery Scheme from 1 July 2019 that can make employers and corporate entities jointly liable for repaying debts.
Medical practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, and the corporate entities or employers that bill on their behalf.
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