Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Amendments to improve or maintain access to government services

Part 5   Authorising appropriate information sharing to improve the integrity of medicare

Health Insurance Act 1973

67   At the end of Division 5A of Part VAA

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106XC Additional information about practitioner referred by Committee or Determining Authority

(1) This section applies if a written statement is given by a Committee or the Determining Authority to the Director under subsection 106XA(1) or 106XB(1), stating its concerns that:

(a) conduct by a practitioner (including a person who has been a practitioner) has caused, is causing, or is likely to cause, a significant threat to the life or health of any other person; or

(b) a practitioner (including a person who has been a practitioner) has failed to comply with professional standards.

(2) The Committee or the Determining Authority, as the case may be, may give the Director additional informationin relation to:

(a) the review or investigation in connection with which the written statement is given; or

(b) any matter covered by the review or investigation or the statement; or

(c) the services or benefits provided, or purportedly provided, by the practitioner under a medicare program.