Bill
Health Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-11-04. Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health, Disability and Ageing
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-09-04
- second reading — 2025-09-04
- second reading — 2025-10-07
- second reading — 2025-10-07
- third reading — 2025-10-07
- introduced — 2025-10-27
- second reading — 2025-10-27
- second reading — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-10-30
- committee — 2025-10-30
- third reading — 2025-10-30
- passed — 2025-10-30
- royal assent — 2025-11-04
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 2025-09-04.
This bill would make several changes to health insurance and medical program laws.
It would establish a new part in the Health Insurance Act 1973 for allocating Medicare provider numbers, including allowing a computer program to make certain decisions.
The bill would also delay the start of changes to assignment of Medicare benefits from 9 January 2026 to 1 July 2026.
- Establish the function of allocating Medicare provider numbers in the Health Insurance Act 1973.
- Delay commencement of changes to the Health Insurance Act 1973 introduced by the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Assignment of Medicare Benefits) Act 2024 to 1 July 2026.
- Amend the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 to align with Services Australia's electronic systems for the Premiums Reduction Scheme.
- Amend Part VD of the Health Insurance Act 1973 to enhance the Bonded Medical Program.
- Remove the Medicare ban for ex-Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship Scheme participants who breach their return of service obligations.
- Remove the requirement for students who do not complete their medical degree to repay the cost of their Commonwealth Supported Place.
Health professionals, private health insurers, medical students, and participants in the Bonded Medical Program.
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