Most useful information for seeking medical help

1. Top payments
2. Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme

Who can get disaster health care assistance

If you’re an Australian resident, you may be able to get help with reasonable health related out of pocket costs.

1. Top payments
2. Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme

What disaster health care assistance covers

Under the scheme, we can help you with reasonable out of pocket costs for health care you get in Australia.

1. Top payments
2. Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme

How to claim disaster health care assistance

Complete the following steps to claim disaster health care assistance.

1. Top payments
2. Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme

How we pay disaster health care assistance

We’ll deposit your payment straight into your bank account.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare benefit tax statement

Why you can’t get a Medicare benefit tax statement

The Net Medical Expenses Tax Offset is being phased out.

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.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare Entitlement Statement

Who can get a Medicare Entitlement Statement

You can get a Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) if you weren’t eligible for Medicare for all or part of a financial year.

1. Top payments
2. Social work services

How our social work services can help

We can help if you need to turn to someone for support.

1. Top payments
2. Individual Healthcare Identifiers

Who we share your Individual Healthcare Identifier number with

Find out who we share your Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) number with and how they use it.

1. Medicare
2. What's covered

Other Medicare support

We have a range of programs to help with some specific health care needs.