Australian Medical Association

The Commonwealth Government plans to introduce this Bill to make amendments to the legislation that underpins the Professional Services Review (PSR) scheme.

The Department of Health and Aging has recently met with the AMA to discuss and explain the current proposed amendments.

The AMA has made a submission to the Department of Health and Ageing on the exposure draft of the Bill.

AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, today warned that private health insurance premiums are likely to rise by about five per cent as a result of measures in the Rudd Government's first Budget.

An Access Economics analysis of the Budget commissioned by the AMA, Health and the 2008-09 Federal Budget, found that changes in the private health insurance rebate and increases in the Medicare Levy surcharge threshold would spark an exodus of young, healthy people from private health insurance.

AMA submission to DoHA regarding proposed secondary legislation to support the Health Insurance Amendment (Inappropriate and Prohibited Practices and Other Measures) Act 2007.