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applicant must undertake to pay to an assigning medical practitioner an amount equal to a payment received that, apart from the assignment, would be owed to the medical practitioner, within 90 days after the Chief Executive Medicare makes the payment.

15 Billing agent's earnings
 An applicant must undertake:
         (a) to apply interest earned from an amount paid into the trust account only in accordance with an agreement made with the medical practitioner to whom the amount relates; and
         (b) to charge commission on an amount paid into the trust account only in accordance with an agreement made with the medical practitioner to whom the amount relates.

16 Privacy
 An applicant must undertake to comply with the Privacy Act 1988.

17 Changes in circumstances
    (1) An applicant must undertake to tell the Chief Executive Medicare immediately if any of the following things happen to the applicant, as billing agent:
         (a) a trustee, liquidator or court-appointed agent is appointed to control its affairs; or
         (b) there is a change that affects the accuracy of the information given to the Chief Executive Medicare about the trust account under sections 3 or 10 of the Schedule of this Instrument.
         (c) an applicant (or a person who manages the applicant) becomes a person who, under Part 2D.6 of the Corporations Act 2001 is disqualified from managing a corporation.

    (2) An applicant must undertake to tell the Chief Executive Medicare, within 14 days, if the applicant, as billing agent:
(a) has a change of name; or
(b) has a change of address; or
(c) has a change of ownership.

18 Statement of activity
    An applicant must undertake to give the Chief Executive Medicare, on or before 30 September next following the anniversary of the day of approval as a billing agent, a statement setting out the following information:
(a) the number of claims it has made for Medicare benefits;
         (b) the number of claims (if any) it has submitted, and statements it has given, to patients;
(c) the total amount of payments received from patients;
         (d) the number of episodes included in assigned rights for which claims have been processed;
         (e) the number of days of hospitalisation included in assigned rights for which claims have been processed;
         (f)                the total amount of Medicare benefits that it has paid to assigning medical practitioners.