Most useful information for Medicare

1. Top payments
2. Medicare Safety Nets

How to manage your Medicare Safety Net

How to check your Medicare Safety Net threshold, and let us know if your family situation changes.

1. Medicare
2. How to claim

Medicare claims

Find out the different ways you can make a Medicare claim after you’ve paid your doctor.

1. Medicare
2. How to claim

Medicare and tax

Australians help to pay for Medicare from income tax. How much tax you pay depends on your income.

1. Enrolling in Medicare
2. If you’re an Australian permanent resident

Documents to enrol in Medicare if you’re a permanent resident

You need to provide documents that prove your identity and residency.

1. How to enrol
2. Enrolling in Medicare

Enrolling in Medicare if you’re an Australian citizen

To enrol as an Australian citizen in Medicare you need to prove your identity and residency.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare card

Manage invites to your Medicare card online

Manage invites to your Medicare card or accept invites to be added to someone’s card when you’re 15 or older.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare card

How to access your digital Medicare card

You can use the myGov app to access your digital Medicare card and your Organ Donor card if you have one.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare card

Add someone to a Medicare card

You can update your card when your circumstances change.

1. Medicare
2. How to enrol

Enrolling in Medicare

Find out how to enrol in Medicare.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare Entitlement Statement

What is a Medicare Entitlement Statement

A Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) tells you the period during a financial year that you weren’t eligible for Medicare.