✨ Health Service Provider Requirements
1354 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 55 23 MARCH 2005
B7.2
Nothing in this Notice gives any Provider an exclusive right to provide the Services and the Ministry may make payments to any number of Providers under this Notice.
B8.
Record Keeping
B8.1
The Provider must keep and preserve Records and protect the security of those Records in accordance with best business practice and its legal obligations, and make them available to the Ministry in accordance with the Ministry’s reasonable instructions and rights to access such Records.
B8.2
The Provider must take all due care to ensure that, in the event of the Provider ceasing to provide the Services, the Records are properly preserved and, where appropriate, Records relating to Eligible Persons are transferred to a new Provider.
B9.
Financial Management
B9.1
The Provider must operate sound financial and business management principles, procedures and practices.
B9.2
The Provider must maintain full and proper financial and business Records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, procedures and practices and best business practice generally and any legal obligations applicable to the Provider.
B10.
Withholding of Payments
B10.1
Where in the Ministry’s opinion, based on reasonable grounds:
(a) a Provider is materially or intentionally in breach of this Notice; or
(b) a Claim made by that Provider is materially or intentionally false;
the Ministry may, in addition to or instead of any other remedy under this Notice or at law, withhold some or all of the payments due to the Provider until the Provider has remedied the breach, or until the Ministry is satisfied of the veracity of the Provider’s Claim.
B10.2
Where in the Ministry’s opinion, based on reasonable grounds, a Claim made by an Eligible Person is materially or intentionally false, the Ministry may withhold some or all of the payments due to the Eligible Person until satisfied of the veracity of the Eligible Person’s Claim.
B10.3
Before withholding any payment under clause B10.1 or B10.2, the Ministry will inform the Provider or Eligible Person, as the case may be, in writing of the breach or false Claim and that, if the breach is not remedied or the Ministry is not satisfied of the veracity of the Provider’s Claim, within a specified period of not less than 20 Working Days, payments will be withheld after the expiry of that specified period.
B11.
Termination of Application of Notice
B11.1
Where a Provider is materially or intentionally in breach of this Notice or has made one or more Claims that individually or collectively are materially or intentionally false the Ministry may, in addition to or instead of withholding payments under clause B10.1 or pursuing any
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