Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6)1
I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Act 1973.
Dated 20 December 2001
PETER HOLLINGWORTH
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
KAY PATTERSON
1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Health Insurance Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6).
2 Commencement
These Regulations commence on gazettal.
3 Amendment of Health Insurance Regulations 1975
Schedule 1 amends the Health Insurance Regulations 1975.
Schedule 1 Amendments
(regulation 3)
[1] After subregulation 27 (8)
insert
(9) For subsection 130 (3A) of the Act:
(a) the authority known as General Practice Education and Training Limited (ACN 095 433 140) (GPET) is a prescribed authority; and
(b) the following kind of information, being information relating to a medical practitioner who is undertaking the RACGP Training Program, approved by the RACGP, or the Australian General Practice Training Program, approved by GPET, may be provided to GPET:
(i) the medical practitioner’s name;
(ii) the medical practitioner’s provider number;
(iii) the period over which, and the location in which, the medical practitioner is undertaking the Program;
(iv) the professional services for which the medical practitioner has made a claim for payment of a medicare benefit and the amount of the benefit claimed.
(10) Information relating to the rendering of a professional service must not be provided under subparagraph (9) (b) (iv) in a manner that would allow the identity of the person to whom that service was rendered to be reasonably ascertained.
[2] Schedule 5, Part 2, after item 17
insert
18 | General Practice Education and Training Limited (ACN 095 433 140) | Australian General Practice Training Program |
Notes
1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1975 No. 80, as amended by 1975 Nos. 118, 125 and 135 (disallowed by the Senate on 4 September 1975); 1976 Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977 Nos. 26 and 44; 1978 Nos. 95 and 177; 1979 No. 230; 1981 Nos. 198 and 317; 1982 Nos. 157, 251 and 287; 1983 Nos. 106, 231, 253 and 255; 1984 Nos. 5 and 162; 1985 Nos. 36, 50, 95, 205 and 290 (disallowed by the Senate at the expiration of 10 April 1986); 1986 Nos. 19, 20, 87 and 326; 1987 Nos. 32, 163 and 166; 1988 No. 314; 1989 Nos. 6, 54, 117 and 293; 1990 No. 25; 1991 Nos. 82, 314, 365 and 441; 1992 Nos. 42, 111, 239, 335 and 431; 1993 Nos. 106, 130 and 154; 1994 Nos. 20, 27, 111, 137, 138, 328 and 413; 1995 Nos. 9, 25, 287, 300 and 409; 1996 Nos. 231, 234, 235, 335 and 336; 1997 Nos. 61, 287, 300, 319 and 395; 1998 Nos. 44, 125, 138, 204, 220, 253, 268, 370, 371 and 372; 1999 Nos. 48, 88, 157, 176, 254, 343 and 344; 2000 Nos. 146 and 290; 2001 Nos. 272, 273, 274, 275 and 290.
2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 2001.