Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00982:clause:2_13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00982
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 13
Character Range: 21753–22575

13  Prohibition of linkage of claims information
  An agency must not link:
 (a) claims information that is held in a database maintained for the purposes of the Medicare Benefits Program; and
 (b) claims information that is held in a database maintained for the purposes of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Program;
unless the linkage is authorised in a way specified in this instrument.
Note 1: Nothing in this instrument precludes the matching of information under subsection 132B(1) of the Act, or the operation of Part VIIIA of the Act generally: see subsection 135AA(5C).
Note 2: For authorisations to link claims information, see Division 2. For authorisations to re‑link old information with its personal identification components, see section 19.

Division 2—General authorisations for linkage of claims information