Health

Private Health Insurance

Our private health insurance clients include major health funds, smaller restricted funds, and private health care providers. The broad range of services we can provide to these clients include:

• Advice on the PHI Act and associated rules
• Engagement with regulators
• Design, funding, and implementation of compliant and innovative health programs
• Review of new products and offerings
• Commercial contracting, including HPPAs and outsourcing
• Corporate advice, including health fund mergers
• Advice on prudential compliance, including ensuring processes and contracts reflect the requirements
• Updates and amendments to health fund rules and ensuring appropriate notice is provided
• Privacy compliance reviews and advice
• Consumer law compliance reviews and advice
• Preparing training and guides to assist compliance

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Digital Health

Our health law team has significant experience in digital health, working with both government and private clients in connection with digital health solutions. Relevant services include regulatory advice, assistance with tenders, privacy and health records advice, and commercial contracting, including terms of use and end user licence agreements.

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Telehealth

We have extensive experience in the area of telehealth. We can support you with:

• Regulatory advice, including in relation to standards and billing requirements
• Clinical risk reviews and advice
• End user terms and conditions
• Commercial contracting, including outsourcing
• Privacy compliance reviews and advice
• Consumer law compliance reviews and advice

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Therapeutic Goods

We advise on therapeutic goods, including advice on compliance with manufacturing, importing and supplying registered and unregistered medicines and medical devices, TGA approvals, TGA Advertising Code, consumer law, privacy law, commercial agreements, and managing legal risk more broadly.

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Health Regulation

We advise broadly on health regulatory matters and can support you with:

• Health practitioner regulation
• Therapeutic goods regulation
• Health service facility requirements
• Research governance and funding
• Regulation of health funding, including Medicare benefits and insurance
• Prescribing requirements
• Labelling and advertising in a compliant manner
• Privacy and health records (both Commonwealth and state/territory regimes)
• Application of general consumer law to health services

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Health Services Contracts

We have broad experience (commercial and regulatory) in preparing and advising on health services contracts, ranging from terms with individual patients to significant commercial agreements governing ongoing service provision.