Approved billing agents
20AB Approved billing agents
The Chief Executive Medicare may, in writing, approve as a billing agent a person who, or body that, has applied for approval.
The application must:
meet any requirements specified in the regulations; and
be accompanied by the fee (if any) specified in the regulations.
Any fee specified in the regulations must be reasonably related to the expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Commonwealth in relation to the application and must not be such as to amount to taxation.
In considering whether to approve a person or body, the Chief Executive Medicare must comply with any guidelines made in writing by the Minister under subsection (6).
The Chief Executive Medicare must give to the applicant written notice of the decision whether to approve a person or body.
Section 266 of the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 requires the person to be notified of the person’s review rights.
An approval is subject to such conditions as are determined by the Minister under subsection (6).
The Minister may, by legislative instrument:
make guidelines for the purposes of subsection (3); and
determine conditions for the purposes of subsection (5).
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