2008
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Health Insurance Amendment (90 Day Pay Doctor Cheque Scheme) Bill 2008
No. , 2008
(Health and Ageing)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law in relation to health insurance, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendments relating to the 90 day pay doctor cheque scheme 3
Health Insurance Act 1973 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the law in relation to health insurance, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (90 Day Pay Doctor Cheque Scheme) Act 2008.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
| 2. Schedule 1 | A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if any of the provision(s) do not commence within the period of 12 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments relating to the 90 day pay doctor cheque scheme
Health Insurance Act 1973
1 Subsections 20(3) and (4)
After “general practitioner” (wherever occurring), insert “, specialist or consultant physician”.
2 At the end of section 20
Add:
(6) Subsections (3) to (5) do not apply in relation to a professional service rendered by or on behalf of a specialist or consultant physician, unless the claim for medicare benefit in respect of the service has been made electronically in the manner prescribed by the regulations.
3 Application
The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to professional services rendered on or after the day on which this Schedule commences.