NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 132A Definitions
NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 132A
Definitions"authorised Commonwealth entity" means a Commonwealth entity that is authorised under subsection 132B(2) to match information under subsection 132B(1) on the Chief Executive Medicare's behalf.
"Commonwealth entity" has the same meaning as in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 .
"general treatment" has the same meaning as in the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 .
"Health Practitioner Regulation National Law" means:
(a) for a State or Territory other than Western Australia--the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld), as it applies (with or without modification) as a law of the State or Territory; or
(b) for Western Australia--the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010 (WA), so far as that Act corresponds to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld).
"inappropriate practice" has the same meaning as in Part VAA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 .
"permitted purpose" : each of the following is a permitted purpose for the matching of data:
(a) identifying whether a person may have, under a medicare program, claimed or been paid a benefit that exceeds the amount of the benefit that was payable to the person;
(b) recovering overpayments of benefits under a medicare program;
(c) detecting or investigating contraventions of a law of the Commonwealth relating to a medicare program;
(d) detecting or investigating whether a person may have engaged in inappropriate practice;
(e) analysing services, benefits, programs or facilities that are provided for under a medicare program, in connection with the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d);
(f) educating healthcare providers about medicare program requirements.
Note: The Privacy Act 1988 contains provisions relevant to the use and disclosure of information under this Act.
"personal information" has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988 .