Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1998No. 204 1

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Health Insurance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, 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 30 June 1998.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

michael wooldridge

Minister for Health and Family Services

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations commence on 1 July 1998.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Health Insurance Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   New regulations 13A and 13B

3.1   After regulation 13, insert:

Request for payment of medicare benefit

 “13A.For paragraph 20A (2C) (c) of the Act, a request must be in the form approved by the Commission.

Application for approval as billing agent

 “13B.(1) For paragraph 20AB (2) (a) of the Act, an application must be in the form approved by the Council.

 “(2) For paragraph 20AB (2) (b) of the Act, the fee to accompany an application is:

• (a)

  if the applicant has not previously been approved as a billing agent—$1,000; or

• (b)

  in any other case—$500.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 July 1998.

2. 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 and 138.