Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance) Act 2006 (83 of 2006)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to the Health Insurance Ombudsman

National Health Act 1953

75   After subsection 82ZTA(1)

Insert:

(1A) The Minister may request the Health Insurance Ombudsman to investigate the practices and procedures of a health care provider together with an investigation of a registered organization under subsection (1), if:

(a) the investigation is to relate to a matter arising out of or connected with a private health insurance arrangement; and

(b) the health care provider’s practices and procedures relate to either or both of the following:

(i) the application of a private health insurance arrangement to services or goods provided, or to goods manufactured or supplied, by the health care provider;

(ii) a private health insurance arrangement to which the health care provider is, or was in the period to be investigated, a party; and

(c) the Minister considers, having regard to the object of this Part, that investigation of the health care provider together with the registered organization is necessary or appropriate in order to consider the matter effectively.