Bill
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Fairer Rules for General Treatments) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2020-09-01. (s) WILKIE, Andrew, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Andrew Wilkie
- Portfolio
- (s) WILKIE, Andrew, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-11-25
- second reading — 2019-11-25
- other — 2020-09-01
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 2019-11-25.
The bill would stop private health insurers from paying different rebates for the same treatment under the same product in the same state or territory.
It would let the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority step in when insurers misuse data from the Health Industry Claims and Payments Service to distort competition.
The bill would also ban health funds from acting as both insurers and providers of general health treatments.
- Prevents private health insurers from offering different rebates for identical treatments under the same product in the same jurisdiction.
- Gives the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority power to intervene if insurers improperly use HICAPS data to manipulate the market.
- Bans private health funds from being both insurers and providers of general health treatments.
Private health insurers, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, and the Health Industry Claims and Payments Service.
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