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Purpose: To enable the Ministry of Health to determine an individual's:
MoH disclosure to INZ: MoH sends names, date of birth and NHI number to INZ for matching.
INZ disclosure to MoH: INZ provides names, gender, birth date, nationality, visa or permit type and start and expiry dates, and dates the person entered or left New Zealand. INZ may also disclose details of a parent or guardian of a young person.
Compliance: inactive.
| Information matching provision | Immigration Act 2009, s300 |
| Year authorised | 2010 |
| Year commenced | 2011 |
| Programme type | Confirming eligibility |
| Unique identifiers | National Health Index |
System description
Two sets of records are sent for matching. These are extracted from the Enrolment Registers sent to MoH by Public Health Organisations (PHOs) to claim payments.
One set comprises records from particular providers, subcontracted to a PHO. The records are selected to enable a review of the capitation funding provided to those practices ('Schedule 1').
The second set comprises randomly selected entries from across all PHO Enrolment Registers ('Schedule 2').
MoH send the selected records to INZ to be matched. INZ returns any relevant immigration information. MoH then filters the matched records according to various eligibility criteria. Further action is only taken when people are identified as ineligible.
Although the direct relationship is between the PHO and the patients, to simplify the process for the PHOs under investigation, MoH sends letters to people who appear to be ineligible for the public funding to give them the opportunity to provide evidence of eligibility. This constitutes notice of adverse action under section 181.
If the patient is not able to provide evidence of eligibility, MoH advises the PHO and requests that it remove the ineligible person from the Enrolment Register and make no further claim for capitation payment for that person.
|
|
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2018/19 |
|
|
Records sent for matching |
1,051,181 |
0** |
1,000,000 |
42,245 |
2,228,138 |
|
|
Records matched |
734,739 |
0** |
705,842 |
34,893 |
1,603,620 |
|
|
Notices of adverse action |
716 |
15,328 |
12,297 |
1,466 |
30,344 |
|
|
Successful challenges |
(wrongly matched) |
5 |
216 |
25 |
0 |
175 |
|
Successful challenges |
(error in application of eligibility criteria) |
11* |
214 |
158 |
17 |
290 |
2013/14: * at 30 June 2014, the majority of notices were still to be sent out.
2014/15: ** no new records were sent for matching while MoH dealt with the matches returned in June 2014.
2017/18: no matching undertaken
2019/20: - no matching undertaken as the 2018/19 match covered the remaining unmatched patients on the register and were still being followed up in 2019/20.
2020/21: - no matches were run. MoH intend to resume matching in 2022 for new patients who have not already been matched.
2021/22: - no matches run due to a shift of focus to the COVID response. MoH are planning to resume the data match in March/April 2023.
The utility of this provision was assessed in the report Unenrolled Voters Programme, INZ/MoH Publicly Funded Health Eligibility Programme Matches (August 2016) and again in June 2021.
