Bill
Health Insurance Amendment (Enhancing the Bonded Medical Program and Other Measures) Bill 2021
passed, as at 2021-12-13. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-08-26
- second reading — 2021-08-26
- second reading — 2021-10-26
- second reading — 2021-10-26
- third reading — 2021-10-26
- introduced — 2021-11-22
- second reading — 2021-11-22
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- third reading — 2021-12-02
- passed — 2021-12-02
- royal assent — 2021-12-13
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 2021-08-26.
This bill would change the Health Insurance Act 1973 to make the Bonded Medical Program work more flexibly.
It lets legacy scheme participants apply for up to six extra years to finish their return of service obligation, and removes penalty for serious disability or death.
The bill also replaces an automatic six-year Medicare ban for minor contract breaches with a more appropriate administrative penalty.
- Allows legacy scheme participants to apply for an extended compliance determination of up to six additional years.
- Permits a person to cease being a Bonded Participant without penalty due to serious disability or death.
- Amends the administrative penalty for failing to provide information or documents on time.
- Replaces the automatic six-year Medicare benefit suspension for inadvertent and minor MRBS contract breaches.
Participants in the Bonded Medical Program and legacy MRBS and BMP schemes, and the Department of Health.
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