Bill
Private Health Insurance Amendment (GP Services) Bill 2014
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- Richard Di Natale
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-03-27
- second reading — 2014-03-27
- other — 2016-04-17
- other — 2016-04-19
- other — 2016-05-09
- other — 2016-09-15
- other — 2019-07-01
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 2014-03-27.
This bill would stop private health insurers from making deals with GP clinics that give their members better access to appointments.
It would amend the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 to ban insurers from contracting with primary care providers for preferential treatment.
The bill does not change the existing rule that insurers cannot cover services that attract a Medicare rebate.
- Prohibits private health insurers from entering into arrangements with primary care providers that offer preferential treatment to insured members.
- Clarifies that such arrangements are against the law, addressing ambiguity in the current Act.
- Amends the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 to make the prohibition explicit.
Private health insurers, primary care providers (such as GP clinics), and their insured members.
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