Bill
Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) (Repeal) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21. Health and Aged Care portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health and Aged Care
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-11-20
- second reading — 2024-11-20
- other — 2024-11-26
- second reading — 2024-11-26
- second reading — 2024-11-26
- other — 2024-11-27
- third reading — 2024-11-27
- introduced — 2025-02-04
- second reading — 2025-02-04
- other — 2025-07-21
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 2024-11-20.
This bill would repeal a 1991 law that charges fees for pathology approvals.
It would remove application fees for three types of approvals needed to provide Medicare-funded pathology services.
The government says the fees have not been changed since 1991 and exceed the cost of processing applications.
- Repeals the Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Act 1991.
- Removes application charges for approvals of pathology practitioners, authorities and laboratories.
- Aligns the charging arrangement with the Australian Government's Charging Framework.
Pathology providers who apply for approvals to be listed as Medicare service providers.
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