Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Consequential Amendment - Schedules of the Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement) Direction 2026

Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Consequential Amendment - Schedules of the Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement) Direction 2026

I, Nigel Murray, delegate for the Minister of Health and Ageing, make the following Notifiable Instrument.

Dated  29 June 2026    

Nigel Murray

Assistant Secretary
MBS Policy and Specialist Programs Branch
Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division
Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Primary Health Networks Program: General Practice Incentive Fund) Direction (No. 1) 2026

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – First Nations Molecular Point-of-Care Testing Program) Direction (No. 1) 2025

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Victoria - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction 2025

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Queensland - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 2) 2025

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Tasmania - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No.1) 2026

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Charleville and Western Areas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health – Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction 2026

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – South Australia - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 2) 2025

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – New South Wales - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 3) 2026

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction 2025

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Northern Territory – Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 1) 2026

1  Name

  This instrument is the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Consequential Amendment - Schedules of the Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement) Direction 2026.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Primary Health Networks Program: General Practice Incentive Fund) Direction (No. 1) 2026

1  Sub-subparagraph (2)(b)(i)(B)

Omit “2020-2025 Addendum, Schedule K, one year extension, to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – First Nations Molecular Point-of-Care Testing Program) Direction (No. 1) 2025

2  Sub-subparagraph (2)(b)(i)(A)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Victoria - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction 2025

3  Subparagraph (2)(b)(iii)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Queensland - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 2) 2025

4  Subparagraph (2)(b)(iii)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Tasmania - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No.1) 2026

5  Subparagraph (2)(b)(iii)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Charleville and Western Areas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health – Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction 2026

6  Sub-subparagraph 6(b)(iii)(A)

Omit “Schedule K – Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement: Revised Public Hospital Funding and Health Reform Arrangements (dated 2025)”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – South Australia - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 2) 2025

7  Subparagraph (2)(b)(iii)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – New South Wales - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 3) 2026

8  Subparagraph (2)(b)(iii)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network - Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction 2025

9  Subparagraph (2)(b)(iii)

Omit “Schedule K of the 2020-2025 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”, substitute “Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.

Health Insurance (Medicare Benefits Payable in Respect of Professional Services – Northern Territory – Medical Services performed under the Single Employer Model Trial) Direction (No. 1) 2026

10  Sub-subparagraph 6(b)(iii)(A)

Omit “through the Schedule K - National Health Reform Agreement - Addendum 2025-26”, substitute “through Schedule L of the 2026-31 Addendum to the National Health Reform Agreement”.