Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01571:reg:7:p2
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Provision Reference: reg 7 (pt 2/2)
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other personal information of the individual.

Disclosures by Services Australia to the Department of Health

        (9)  Services Australia may disclose claims information to the Department of Health provided that such disclosures do not include personal identification components, except as permitted by section 13 or where directly connected to the Department of Health assisting the Chief Executive Medicare to perform his or her health provider compliance functions in accordance with these Rules. Services Australia may disclose to the Department of Health claims information that contains a Medicare PIN and/or an encrypted form of an individual's Medicare card number.

        (10)  Services Australia may not provide to the Department of Health, other than where it is to enable the Chief Executive Medicare to perform a health provider compliance function in accordance with these Rules, any algorithm which enables an encrypted Medicare card number to be unencrypted.

        (11) Services Australia may provide to the Department of Health an algorithm which enables an encrypted Medicare card number or a Medicare PIN to be validated as an authentic number of either type.

        (12) Other than where its provision is to enable the Chief Executive Medicare to perform a health provider compliance function in accordance with these Rules, Services Australia may only provide to the Department of Health the name corresponding to a Medicare PIN where Services Australia has received a request from the Department of Health conforming to section 13.

        (13) Services Australia must keep a record of any disclosures of claims information to the Department of Health in accordance with section 13.

        (14)  Services Australia may also provide information to the Department of Health as to whether the records attaching to a Medicare PIN relate to an individual who is or was a participant in special schemes such as safety net arrangements under the Medicare Benefits and Pharmaceutical Benefits Programs. That additional information shall not be in a form which reveals the identity of the individual.

        (15) Where Services Australia lawfully discloses information to an agency, organisation or individual other than the Department of Health it must not provide both the name and the Medicare PIN unless it is expressly required by or under law (for example, under warrant or subpoena).