Department of Health and Aged Care
National Health Act 1953
Decision to reprimand – Aged Health Care Pty Ltd (2024/01)
I, Elizabeth Quinn, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Benefits Integrity Division, acting as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care (the Minister), have made a decision under section 134A(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the NH Act) to publish in the Gazette particulars of a decision made under section 95(1) of the NH Act by the Minister on 23 January 2024 to reprimand Aged Health Care Pty Ltd, the pharmacist approved under section 90 of the NH Act, to supply pharmaceutical benefits at Shop 1-2, 8 Douglas Road, Quakers Hill NSW 2763 (the approved premises). Aged Health Care Pty Ltd’s approval number for the approved premises is 14875X.
The Minister reprimanded Aged Health Care Pty Ltd in the following terms:
‘Aged Health Care Pty Ltd is reprimanded for using its approval under section 90 of the National Health Act 1953 (NH Act), or allowing that approval to be used, to claim for payment from the Commonwealth for pharmaceutical benefits which were not supplied at or from the approved premises. I consider that this conduct was in breach of the conditions of approval, contravened Part VII of the NH Act, and was an abuse of Aged Health Care Pty Ltd’s approval.’
This reprimand does not affect Aged Health Care Pty Ltd's approval and it continues to be entitled to supply pharmaceutical benefits at the approved premises and to be paid by the Commonwealth for the supply of pharmaceutical benefits at or from the approved premises.
Elizabeth Quinn
Delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care
Acting First Assistant Secretary
Benefits Integrity Division
31 January 2024