(a) for a State or Territory other than Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld), as it applies (with or without modification) as a law of the State or Territory; or

(b) for Western Australia—the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010 (WA), so far as that Act corresponds to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the Schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld).

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;

recovering overpayments of benefits under a medicare program;

detecting or investigating contraventions of a law of the Commonwealth relating to a medicare program;

detecting or investigating whether a person may have engaged in inappropriate practice;

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);

educating healthcare providers about medicare program requirements.

information that is held or has been obtained by the Chief Executive Medicare for the purpose of a medicare program;

(b) therapeutic goods information (Therapeutic Goods Act 1989) that has been disclosed under subsection 132C(1) of this Act;within the meaning of subsection 61(1) of the

information that has been disclosed to the Chief Executive Medicare under section 132D;

information that has been provided to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law for a State or Territory;

information that has been provided to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with any of the following Acts:

(i) the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006;

(ii) the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004;

(iii) the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988;

(iv) the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019;

(v) the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986;

(f) any other information that may be lawfully provided to the Chief Executive Medicare (other than information that may only be obtained by the Chief Executive Medicare for the purpose of performing functions under the My Health Records Act 2012).

must comply with any other terms and conditions relating to the matching of the information that are determined, in writing, by the Chief Executive Medicare; and

must, if requested to do so by the Chief Executive Medicare, disclose the results of the matching to the Chief Executive Medicare.

the insurance policy was taken out after the commencement of this section; or

the insurance policy provided that information of that kind may be disclosed if the disclosure is authorised under an Australian law; or

(c) the insurer had notified the person under subclause 5.1 of the Australian Privacy Principles in Schedule 1 to the Privacy Act 1988 that information of that kind may be disclosed if the disclosure is authorised under an Australian law.

the Chief Executive Medicare; and

an authorised Commonwealth entity.

require the Chief Executive Medicare to establish and maintain a publicly available register of the kinds of information matched by the Chief Executive Medicare or an authorised Commonwealth entity under subsection 132B(1); and

require the Chief Executive Medicare to keep records of information matched by the Chief Executive Medicare under subsection 132B(1); and

require an authorised Commonwealth entity to keep records of information matched by the Commonwealth entity under subsection 132B(1); and

require the Chief Executive Medicare and an authorised Commonwealth entity to take reasonable steps to destroy personal information that has been matched under subsection 132B(1) if the information is no longer needed for any purpose for which the information was matched; and

require the Chief Executive Medicare and an authorised Commonwealth entity to take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information that is matched under subsection 132B(1) is accurate, complete and up to date; and

require the Chief Executive Medicare and an authorised Commonwealth entity not to match information for a permitted purpose under subsection 132B(1) unless the Chief Executive Medicare is satisfied that the matching is reasonably necessary for that purpose.

any terms and conditions relating to the matching of the information determined by the Chief Executive Medicare under paragraph 132B(3)(a) of that Act; and

the principles made by the Minister under subsection 132F(1) of that Act.

(a) the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006;

(b) Chapter 6 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004;

(c) the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988;

(d) the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019;

(e) Part V of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986;

any other Commonwealth law prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

has been rendered in connection with the provision of treatment under a relevant DVA law; and

is of a kind that, if the service had not been rendered in connection with the provision of treatment under the relevant DVA law, medicare benefit or dental benefit would have been payable in respect of the service.

if an amount has been paid (whether or not to the person) for treatment under a relevant DVA law relating to services referred to in paragraph (1)(a)—that the person is to repay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the whole or a specified part of the amount paid for the treatment;

that any amount for treatment under a relevant DVA law that would otherwise be payable for services referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is to cease to be payable;

that any amount for treatment under a relevant DVA law that would otherwise be payable for a service in the provision of which the person is stated in a report under section 106L to have engaged in inappropriate practice ceases to be payable;

if an amount has been paid (whether or not to the person under review) for treatment under a relevant DVA law relating to a service:

that was rendered or initiated by the person under review or an associated person; and

in connection with the rendering or initiation of which the person under review or an associated person is stated in a report under section 106L (other than a report based on a finding made under subsection 106K(2) or 106KB(3)) to have engaged in inappropriate practice;

an unpaid amount under paragraph 92(4)(e) or (f);