Health Legislation Amendment (Modernising My Health Record - Sharing by Default) Act 2025 (8 of 2025)
Schedule 2 Other amendments
National Health Act 1953
19 After section 132A
Insert:
132AB Meaning of permitted purpose
(1) For the purposes of this Part, each of the following is a permitted purpose for the matching of data other than data that includes My Health Record information:
(a) identifying whether a person may have, under a medicare program, claimed or been paid a benefit that exceeds the amount of the benefit that was payable to the person;
(b) recovering overpayments of benefits under a medicare program;
(c) detecting or investigating contraventions of a law of the Commonwealth relating to a medicare program;
(d) detecting or investigating whether a person may have engaged in inappropriate practice;
(e) analysing services, benefits, programs or facilities that are provided for under a medicare program, in connection with the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d);
(f) educating healthcare providers about medicare program requirements.
(2) For the purposes of this Part, each of the following is a permitted purpose for the matching of data that includes My Health Record information:
(a) identifying whether a person may have, under a medicare program, claimed or been paid a benefit in relation to a share by default service that exceeds the amount of the benefit that was payable to the person;
(b) recovering overpayments of benefits under a medicare program in relation to share by default services;
(c) detecting or investigating contraventions of a law of the Commonwealth relating to share by default services;
(d) analysing services, benefits, programs or facilities that are provided for under a medicare program, in connection with the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c);
(e) educating healthcare providers about requirements in relation to share by default services.
Note: The Privacy Act 1988 contains provisions relevant to the use and disclosure of information under this Act.