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.