Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2019
Medicare bill ‘puts every Australian at risk’
28 November 2019 - A new Medicare anti-fraud bill would put the privacy of every Australian at risk and create a 'honey pot' for hackers, experts are warning.
The federal government has proposed laws to crack down on Medicare fraud that would see departments sharing information with Medicare.
The legislation introduces a new data matching scheme for the Department of Health to access and share health information for Medicare compliance purposes. Sensitive Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data would be freely available to the department, while other agencies could have some access to it in order to "assist them in performing their functions."
