Bill
Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Dental Patients and Other Measures) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-08-21. Health and Aged Care portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health and Aged Care
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-03-22
- second reading — 2023-03-22
- other — 2023-03-28
- second reading — 2023-03-28
- second reading — 2023-03-28
- other — 2023-03-29
- third reading — 2023-03-29
- introduced — 2023-03-30
- second reading — 2023-03-30
- second reading — 2023-08-09
- second reading — 2023-08-09
- committee — 2023-08-09
- committee — 2023-08-10
- third reading — 2023-08-10
- passed — 2023-08-10
- royal assent — 2023-08-21
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-03-22.
The bill would remove age limits for Medicare-funded dental treatment for people with cleft and craniofacial conditions.
It would let Services Australia use a computer system to automatically add or remove doctors from the Register of Approved Placements.
The bill would also fix mismatches between the Health Insurance Act and the Bonded Medical Program rules about how long participants must work in return for their training.
- Removes age restrictions for prescribed dental patients under section 3BA of the Health Insurance Act.
- Enables a computerised system for Services Australia to action decisions about the Register of Approved Placements.
- Aligns the length of return of service obligations under Part VD of the Act with the Health Insurance (Bonded Medical Program) Rule 2020.
People with cleft and craniofacial conditions, doctors in the Bonded Medical Program, and Services Australia.
Sources
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