The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on proposed legislation that would lay the basis for increased data-matching between government entities in order to uncover fraudulent or incorrect Medicare claims. The proposal could also see the data provided from private health insurers automatically matched against government data holdings to red flag potential fraud.
Centrelink’s controversial ‘robodebt’ scheme will be the subject of a class action led by law firm Gordon Legal with the support of the Labor Party.
The Department of Human Services has indicated that a program that involving Centrelink matching Medicare’s data holdings to its own records of welfare claimants to find evidence of fraud or identity theft will has a role for human analysts.
The Department of Human Services is preparing to launch a new program that will combine data from Centrelink and Medicare in an effort to unearth discrepancies between records held at the two agencies.
The government’s delivery of digital services will be scrutinised in a Senate inquiry which is due to report by the end of the year.