Aged Care Legislation Consequential Amendments Regulations 2025 (F2025L01239)

Schedule 3   Health, Disability and Ageing

Healthcare Identifiers Regulations 2020

3   After subsection 8(2)

Insert:

Identifying information - healthcare support service providers

(2A) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(e) of the Act, the following information is identifying information of a healthcare support service provider:

(a) whether the provider has notified the service operator that the provider does not wish to use a healthcare identifier, either temporarily or permanently;

(b) if applicable, the provider's business name on the register established under section 22 of the Business Names Registration Act 2011;

(c) the type of healthcare or support service the provider provides to a healthcare recipient;

(d) the name, date of birth and date of death (if applicable) of the provider's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer (if any);

(e) the work address, email address, telephone number and fax number of the provider's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer (if any);

(f) the identifying number assigned to the provider's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer (if any) by the service operator;

(g) whether an evidence of identity process has been undertaken for the provider's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer (if any);

(h) if an evidence of identity process is being undertaken for the provider's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer (if any) - the name of the entity or service operator undertaking the process;

(i) if an evidence of identity process has been undertaken for the provider's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer (if any) - the name of the entity or service operator that undertook the process, the outcome of the process and when the process was undertaken;

(j) the record that specifies the network address and technical requirements permitting electronic messages to be sent to the provider.

Note 1: Also see paragraph 7(2)(a) of the Act which states that the name of the healthcare provider is also identifying information.

Note 2: The following are examples of the type of support service a provider can provide:

(a) a funded aged care service through the service group home support;

(b) a service provided by a registered NDIS provider, such as behavioural intervention supports.

Note 3: Other identifying information may be required by the service operator from a healthcare provider - see section 7 of the Act.