Agency overview
Our relationships
PSR has working relationships with Medicare Australia, the Department of Health and Ageing and health registration boards nationwide. In addition PSR fosters good relationships with its wider stakeholders, including the Australian Medical Association, the various Royal colleges and many other professional bodies and organisations.
Medicare Australia
Medicare Australia, which administers the MBS and PBS, can ask the Director to review the provision of services by a practitioner for suspected inappropriate practice.
Cases of possible fraud identified during the PSR process are referred back to Medicare Australia for action.
Department of Health and Ageing
The Department of Health and Ageing has policy responsibility for providing advice to the Minister on development and maintenance of the PSR Scheme. The Department liaises with stakeholders in the scheme and performs the broader tasks of policy review and development of legislation. PSR is an active participant in these activities.
Health registration boards
The Act requires the Director to refer practitioners under review to appropriate bodies when a significant threat to the life or health of a patient is identified or where the person under review has failed to comply with professional standards.