Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A private health insurer may disclose to the Chief Executive Medicare information relating to hospital treatment or general treatment provided to a person who is insured under an insurance policy of the insurer, for the purpose of facilitating the matching of that information under subsection 132B(1), if:
(a) the insurance policy was taken out after the commencement of this section; or
(b) 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.
Note: This subsection constitutes an authorisation for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988 .
(2) A private health insurer may disclose the information under subsection (1) on the private health insurer's own initiative, or on request by the Chief Executive Medicare.
(3) If information is disclosed to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with subsection (1), the disclosure is taken to be an authorised disclosure for the purposes of section 323 - 1 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 .