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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Health
Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Services) Bill
1999
No. ,
1999
(Health and Aged
Care)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Health Insurance Act 1973 in relation to diagnostic imaging services, and
for related purposes
ISBN: 0642
404925
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act
1973 in relation to diagnostic imaging services, and for related
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic
Imaging Services) Act 1999.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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.
1 At the end of subsection
16B(7)
Add:
; and (e) either:
(i) the service was rendered before the end of one month (or such further
period as the Commission allows) after the commencement of this paragraph;
or
(ii) the service was rendered after the end of that period at a time when
the practitioner was registered as a participating practitioner in the Register
of Participating Practitioners maintained under section 23DSC.
2 Paragraph 16B(11)(d)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(d) either:
(i) the service was rendered before the end of one month (or such further
period as the Commission allows) after the commencement of this paragraph;
or
(ii) the service was rendered after the end of that period at a time when
the practitioner was registered as a participating practitioner in the Register
of Participating Practitioners maintained under section 23DSC; and
3 After Division 1 of Part
IIB
Insert:
In this Division:
holder of an exemption under subsection 16B(11): a medical
practitioner is taken to have been the holder of an exemption under subsection
16B(11) immediately before the commencement of this Division if, had he or she
rendered an R-type diagnostic imaging service at that time, subsection 16B(1)
would not have applied in relation to that service because of subsection
16B(11).
relevant medical college means:
(a) The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners; or
(b) The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.
(1) The Minister may approve, in writing, for the purposes of this Act one
or more programs of continuing medical education and quality assurance in
respect of providers of diagnostic imaging services.
(2) An approval may specify standards to be reached, or requirements to be
complied with, by medical practitioners participating in the program and the
period within which those standards are to be reached or those requirements are
to be complied with.
(3) An approval is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section
46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
(1) The purpose of this section is to provide for the registration of
medical practitioners who are participating, or are expected to participate, in
a program approved under section 23DSB.
(2) The Commission is to establish and maintain a Register of
Participating Practitioners (the Register).
(3) The Register may be maintained in any form, including the form of a
computer record.
(4) If:
(a) a medical practitioner was, immediately before the commencement of
this Division, the holder of an exemption under subsection 16B(11); or
(b) a remote area exemption granted to a medical practitioner under
section 26DX was in force immediately before commencement of this Division;
or
(c) after the commencement of this Division a relevant medical college
gives notice in writing to the Commission stating that a specified medical
practitioner (other than a practitioner referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)) is
enrolled and participating in a program approved under section 23DSB;
the Managing Director of the Commission must cause to be entered in the
Register a statement that the practitioner is registered as a participating
practitioner and the date of commencement of the registration.
(5) The date to be entered in the Register as the date of commencement of
the registration of the practitioner is:
(a) in the case of a practitioner referred to in paragraph 4(a) or
(b)—the date of commencement of this section; or
(b) in the case of a practitioner referred to in paragraph 4(c)—the
date on which the notice under that paragraph was received by the
Commission.
(6) The Managing Director must give to the practitioner a notice in
writing stating that the practitioner is registered as a participating
practitioner and specifying the date of commencement of the
registration.
(7) The Managing Director may at any time give to a relevant medical
college information as to the practitioners who are registered as participating
practitioners and the respective dates of commencement of their
registration.
(1) If:
(a) a relevant medical college gives notice in writing to the Commission
stating that a specified medical practitioner who is registered in the Register
maintained under section 23DSC (whether the practitioner became registered
pursuant to paragraph 23DSC(4)(a), (b) or (c)):
(i) has ceased to be enrolled or to participate in a program approved
under section 23DSB; or
(ii) has failed to reach standards, or comply with requirements, specified
in the approval or has failed to reach the standards or comply with the
requirements within the period so specified; or
(b) in the case of a medical practitioner who is registered in the
Register maintained under section 23DSC and became so registered pursuant to
paragraph 23DSC(4)(a) or (b)—a relevant medical college does not give
notice in writing to the Commission within one month, or such further period as
the Commission allows, after the commencement of this Division stating that the
practitioner is enrolled and participating in a program approved under section
23DSB; or
(c) a medical practitioner who is registered in the Register maintained
under section 23DSC (whether the practitioner became registered pursuant to
paragraph 23DSC(4)(a), (b) or (c)) requests the Commission in writing to
deregister him or her;
the following subsections have effect.
(2) The Managing Director of the Commission must give to the practitioner
a notice in writing stating that the practitioner will cease to be registered as
a participating practitioner on a date specified in the notice.
(3) The date to be specified must be at least 14 days after the day on
which the notice is given.
(4) The Managing Director must cause to be entered in the Register a
statement that the practitioner has ceased to be registered as a participating
practitioner and the date on which the practitioner ceased to be
registered.