Tag: Medicare

Legacy tech poses ‘significant risk’ to Medicare system: Review

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government should urgently consider options to replace the legacy technology underpinning the Medicare payments system to address fraud and non-compliance by doctors, according to a government-commissioned independent...

Govt brings digital Medicare cards to myGov

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australians now have the option of adding a digital Medicare card with anti-fraud features to the myGov app, as the federal government continues works to integrate the card into...

Medicare data-matching bill passes Parliament

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will launch a new data-matching scheme for sensitive medical information, designed to crack down on Medicare fraud, after controversial legislation sailed through Parliament with support from the...

Medicare data bill gets the nod

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Controversial legislation greatly expanding the scope of Medicare data-matching is set to sail through Parliament after Labor offered its full support for the bill. The Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching)...

Health data share plan is too broad

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s proposed Medicare data-matching scheme is too broad and would bring with it a range of privacy risks, according to the NSW Council for Civil Liberties. The...

Medicare data plan a privacy risk

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s proposed Medicare data-sharing scheme will put the privacy of all Australians at “serious risk”, a data privacy expert has said. The Coalition unveiled draft legislation for the...

New data-matching plan for Medicare

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has unveiled a Medicare data-matching scheme to find fraudulent claims, but is at pains to say it won’t be a repeat of the controversial robodebt program....

Opt-out begins for MHR

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A significant data breach involving the federal government’s My Health Record is “just a matter of time”, digital rights advocates argue, as the three month opt-out period begins. Civil...