Corporate Body
Health Insurance Commission (1974 - 2005)
Commonwealth of Australia
- From
- 8 August 1974
Phillip, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - To
- 30 September 2005
- Functions
- Health Insurance
- Alternative Names
- Medicare Australia
- Reference No
- NAA: CA 1904
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Location
- 134 Reed Street, Tuggeranong, Australian Capital Territory 2901
Summary
The Health Insurance Commission (HIC) was established by the Australian Government in August 1974. The Commission is a statutory authority, which was originally created to administer Medibank, at that time the universal health insurance scheme for Australia. Over the years HIC gas grown to administer a range of health programs.
Medicare Australia, which was formed on 1 October 2005 now performs all the functions and provides all the services that were performed by the Health Insurance Commission http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/.
Details
From their Web site, July 2002: "HIC is a dynamic, innovative and customer-focused organisation delivering government health programs to the Australian community. These programs include Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register and the Australian Organ Donor Register."
Related entries
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Published resources
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28922433. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1306389. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Primary description of agency CA 1904; Health Insurance Commission, Head Office. Registration of entity: 24 August 1975', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%201904. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 2 July 2002, Last modified: 23 March 2010