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HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT (DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES) ACT 2000 NO. 31, 2000 - SCHEDULE 1
- Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973
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: Division 1A—Continuing medical
education and quality assurance in respect of providers of diagnostic imaging
services 23DSA Definitions
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.
23DSB Approval of program - (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 .
23DSC Registration of participants in approved program - (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.
23DSD Deregistration - (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.
[ Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on
30 June 1999
Senate on 18 October 1999 ]
(132/99)