Health Insurance Act 1973

The following is a simplified outline of this Division:

Civil penalty provisions

• A requester must not ask for or accept a pathology or diagnostic imaging service‑related benefit (other than a permitted benefit) from a provider or a person connected to a provider.

• A provider must not offer or provide such a benefit to a requester or a person connected to a requester.

• A provider must not make a pathology or diagnostic imaging service‑related threat to a requester or a person connected to a requester.

• If a requester or provider knows that a person connected to him or her has asked for, accepted, offered or provided such a benefit or made such a threat, the requester or provider can avoid contravening a civil penalty provision by reporting the person.

Persons who are connected to a requester or a provider

• A person is connected to a requester or provider if the person has one of the personal or business relationships, set out in section 23DZZIJ, with the requester or provider.

Benefits

• A benefit is prohibited if it is not a permitted benefit (see sections 23DZZIF and 23DZZIG).

Executive officers

• An executive officer of a body corporate might contravene a civil penalty provision under this Part if the body corporate contravenes a civil penalty provision under this Part.