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HEALTH INSURANCE AMENDMENT (PATHOLOGY REQUESTS) BILL 2010
2008-2009-2010
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Health Insurance Amendment
(Pathology Requests) Bill 2010
No. , 2010
(Health and Ageing)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to
health, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973
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Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010 No. , 2010 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to
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health, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance Amendment
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(Pathology Requests) Act 2010.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s)
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
1 July 2010.
1 July 2010
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be
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expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
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(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not
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part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or
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edited in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973 Schedule 1
Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010 No. , 2010 3
Schedule 1--Amendment of the Health
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Insurance Act 1973
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1 Subsection 3(1) (subparagraph (d)(ii) of the definition of
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professional service)
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Omit "to whom the treating practitioner has made a request for the
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service", substitute "who received a request for the service made by the
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treating practitioner".
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2 Subsection 16A(3)
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Omit "to the approved pathology practitioner".
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3 Paragraph 16A(3)(b)
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Omit "to whom the treating practitioner has made a request for that
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service", substitute "who received a request for the service made by the
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treating practitioner".
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4 Subsection 16A(4)
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Omit "to or by an approved pathology practitioner for a pathology
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service".
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5 Subsection 16A(5)
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Omit "to or by an approved pathology practitioner for a pathology
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service".
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6 Subsection 16A(5AA)
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Omit "to the rendering pathologist".
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7 Paragraph 16A(5AA)(b)
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Omit "to whom the treating practitioner has made a request for that
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service", substitute "who received a request for the service made by the
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treating practitioner".
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8 Subparagraph 16A(5A)(a)(i)
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Omit "to the approved pathology practitioner".
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9 Subparagraph 16A(5A)(a)(ii)
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Schedule 1 Amendment of the Health Insurance Act 1973
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Omit "to whom the treating practitioner made the request", substitute
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"who received a request for the service made by the treating
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practitioner".
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10 Subsection 16A(8)
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Repeal the subsection.
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11 Paragraph 23DK(2)(a)
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Omit "to an approved pathology practitioner (in this section referred to
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as the relevant pathologist)".
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12 Paragraph 23DK(2)(c)
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Omit "relevant pathologist", substitute "approved pathology practitioner
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who received the request (the relevant pathologist)".
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13 Subsection 23DK(5)
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Omit "to an approved pathology practitioner".
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14 Subsection 23DK(11)
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Repeal the subsection.
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