Shared Debt Recovery Scheme - Webinar

Please join us for a 60 minute webinar on the Shared Debt Recovery Scheme.

Amendments to the Health Insurance Act 1973 recently commenced introducing a Shared Debt Recovery Scheme, which applies to services provided by medical practitioners under the Medicare Benefits Scheme from 1 July 2018. The Scheme enables the Commonwealth Government to recover repayment of Medicare compliance debts from both a medical practitioner and another party (such as a medical practice), which become payable as a result of incorrectly claimed Medicare benefits. The Commonwealth Government will do so by making a shared debt determination.

It is important for medical practitioners and medical practices to understand when and how the scheme may apply.

Dominique Egan from Meridian Lawyers and Stuart Chan from Cutcher & Neale will discuss the operation of the scheme, as well as the commercial aspects of the arrangement, case studies and practical steps that both practitioners and medical practices must consider to protect themselves.

More about our speakers:

Stuart Chan, Partner - Specialist Medical Services at Cutcher & Neale 

Working closely with his clients to better understand their personal and financial circumstances, Stuart finds great reward in seeing his clients achieve their goals through tailored wealth creation and preservation strategies. Stuart takes a holistic approach, allowing him to plan all aspects of his clients’ personal finances including their practice/ business, investments and superannuation.

Stuart has been with Cutcher & Neale since 2009, providing specialised accounting and financial services to both medical and dental professionals, in addition to private clients and small to medium enterprises. He is a regular presenter of training programs for professional organisations including the AMA (NSW), the AAPM and other general and specialist medical associations.

His key areas of expertise include: business planning and tax advice; services to medical practitioners and dentists; tax- effective business and investment structuring; practice acquisition and growth strategies; debt restructuring, management and deductibility strategies, and estate planning and retirement strategies

Dominique Egan Principal Lawyer, Meridian Lawyers

Dominique is recognised as a leading lawyer in the area of Health and Aged Care Law. She draws on 17 years of experience dedicated to acting for medical and aged care associations, medical defence organisations and insurers, health practitioners, allied health practitioners, as well as health and aged care facilities.

As a specialist in health law, Dominique’s experience includes health law and policy, legislative reform and compliance, professional conduct (disciplinary) claims made against health practitioners, employment and industrial matters, unfair dismissal claims, workplace investigations and mediations, commercial matters, Medicare Investigations and Professional Services Review for health professionals and coronial inquiries.

Prior to joining Meridian Lawyers, Dominique spent 18 years as a highly regarded Health and Aged Care partner at Tresscox and HWL Ebsworth.

Dominique’s expertise has been recognised in the peer-review guide, Best Lawyers in Australia, in the area of Health and Aged Care Law since 2013.

The webinar will start promptly at 12:30pm via webinar. Instructions on how to log-in will be emailed to you a few days prior to 5th September. You will be able to type in questions during the webinar which the presenter may address at the end of the webinar if time permits. The presentation will be available for you to download.