Most useful information for Medicare

Proving your identity online for Centrelink

How to prove who you are to Centrelink online.

1. Top payments
2. Individual Healthcare Identifiers

How to get an Individual Healthcare Identifier

Find out how to get an Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI).

1. Top payments
2. Health Care Card

How to manage your Health Care Card

Your options and obligations to hold a Health Care Card.

1. Seeking medical help
2. Most useful information

Application to copy or transfer from one Medicare card to another form (MS011)

Complete this form to copy or transfer someone onto your own Medicare card or another Medicare card.

1. Child Dental Benefits Schedule
2. Who can get it

Eligibility checks for Child Dental Benefits Schedule

How to know if your child can get CDBS this year.

1. When you spend a lot on PBS medicines
2. PBS Safety Net Card application

How to get a replacement or supplementary card

How to get a replacement PBS Safety Net card or an extra card for a family member.

1. Low Income Health Care Card
2. Who can get a card

Residence rules for a Low Income Health Care Card

To be eligible for a Low Income Health Care Card you must meet the residence rules.

1. Top payments
2. Low Income Health Care Card

How to manage your Low Income Health Care Card

You can renew or report a stolen card, or tell us if things have changed.

1. Top payments
2. Australian Government rebate on Private Health Insurance

Who can get a rebate on private health insurance

If you or your family pay private health insurance premiums, you may be eligible for the Australian Government Rebate.

1. Australian Government rebate on Private Health Insurance
2. Who can get it

Medicare levy surcharge if you don’t get private health insurance

If you don’t have private health insurance, you may have to pay a surcharge. This is only if your income is more than the Medicare levy surcharge threshold.