AHPRA and Medical Board Regulatory Update
Update your knowledge and understanding of the current approach of AHPRA and the Medical Board when undertaking disciplinary investigations and hearings plus obtain a comprehensive overview of claims against doctors for overpayment and false claims. WEB236N26BZ
Description
Attend and earn 2 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Jack Rush KC, Lennon’s List Barristers
9.00am to 10.00am Medical Board and AHPRA: Disciplinary Investigations and Hearings
- Immediate Action Hearings: best practice in management
- VCAT Hearings: best practice in conduct of hearings
- Essentials of Best Outcomes for Regulator and Practitioner
- Essentials of the Adverse Decision – governing law
- Regulator concerns – the landscape
Presented by Stephen Moloney, Barrister, Dever’s List; Chairperson of the Medicare Participation Review Committee of Australia
10.00am to 11.00am Navigating Government Claims in Medicare against Doctors for Overpayment: The Professional Services Review Scheme
- Scope and Purpose of the Jurisdiction: the long march
- Structure of the process
- Features of best management
- Essentials of the adverse decision; governing law
- Regulator concerns; the landscape
Presented by Stephen Moloney, Barrister, Dever’s List; Chairperson of the Medicare Participation Review Committee of Australia
Presenters
Stephen Moloney
Stephen Moloney practises in administrative law, commercial law, negligence, particularly medical negligence and professional discipline. He has been a member of the Victorian Bar since 1991 and is a member of Dever's List. He is the Chairman of the Medicare Participation Review Committee of the Commonwealth, first appointed in 2010 and was recently re-appointed by the Federal Minister of Health. In this role the suitability of health professionals to participate in the Medicare Scheme is determined. He is the immediate past President of The Australian Institute of Administrative Law (Vic Chapter) and the Medico Legal Society of Victoria. He is a former member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Alfred Hospital. He holds a substantial practice in a variety of government regulatory areas including all aspects of the investigation and regulation of health practitioners at both a State and Commonwealth level. He regularly advises and appears for government and its agencies at both a State and Federal level in multiple jurisdictional areas.