PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INCENTIVES ACT 1998
The Medicare Australia CEO must, within 120 days after the end of each financial year, give the following information to the Commissioner :
(a) the name, date of birth and residential address of each person who:
(i) paid a premium under an * appropriate private health insurance policy for that financial year; or
(ii) received a payment under Chapter 2 in respect of such a premium; or
(iii) was a * participant in the premiums reduction scheme in respect of an appropriate private health insurance policy for that financial year;
(b) the name of the * health fund that issued the policy;
(ba) the fund membership number of the policy;
(bb) the identification code of the fund that issued the policy;
(bc) the type of membership provided by the fund in respect of the policy;
(bd) whether the policy has been terminated or is suspended;
(be) if the policy has been terminated or is suspended, the date of the termination or suspension;
(c) the * type of cover provided by the policy;
(d) the total amount of payments to a health fund in respect of the policy;
(e) the period in respect of which those payments were made;
(f) the name and date of birth of any other person covered by the policy in respect of which those payments were made;
(g) whether any person covered by the policy was a * dependent child at any time during that financial year;
(h) the total amounts paid by the Medicare Australia CEO under Chapters 2 and 3 for the financial year;
(i) any other information that the Commissioner determines in writing.
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Hide history noteFor the purposes of paragraph (1)(i), the * Commissioner must not make a determination requiring the Medicare Australia CEO to provide:
(a) the * tax file number of any person; or
(b) information about the physical, psychological or emotional health of any person.
Determinations under paragraph (1)(i) are disallowable instruments for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .
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