Bill
Health Insurance Amendment (General Practitioners and Quality Assurance) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-06-16. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-27
- second reading — 2020-02-27
- second reading — 2020-05-14
- second reading — 2020-05-14
- third reading — 2020-05-14
- introduced — 2020-05-14
- second reading — 2020-05-14
- second reading — 2020-06-12
- second reading — 2020-06-12
- third reading — 2020-06-12
- passed — 2020-06-12
- royal assent — 2020-06-16
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-02-27.
The bill would change how general practitioners are recognised for Medicare purposes.
It would link Medicare eligibility to the national registration system overseen by the Medical Board of Australia and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
The bill would remove references to the repealed Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998 and replace them with the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.
- Align Medicare eligibility for general practitioners with National Registration and Accreditation Scheme registration requirements.
- Remove references to repealed legislation in the definition of a quality assurance activity.
- Repeal the Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Act 2010.
- Require consequential amendments to the Health Insurance Regulations 2018 and the General Medical Services Table 2019.
General practitioners, Services Australia, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the Medical Board of Australia, and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
Sources
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