Report on performance
Performance
Determining Authority
The Determining Authority made five draft determinations and six final determinations from findings in Committee reports. It took an average of 112 days (146 in 2006–07) to make the draft determinations and an average of 97 days (118 days in 2006–07) to issue the final determinations. Federal Court action caused delay in issuing the final determination in one case.
During the year seven final determinations came into effect. The sanctions imposed by these effective final determinations were:
- reprimand and counselling in all cases
- three practitioners were fully disqualified from Medicare for between one and six months
- four practitioners were partially disqualified from Medicare for between three and 12 months
- six practitioners were required to repay Medicare benefits from $32,082 to $188,256; totalling $530,011
- one practitioner’s authority to dispense PBS pharmaceuticals was fully suspended for six months.