Most useful information for seeking medical help

1. Top payments
2. Medicare card

Have your own Medicare card and number if you’re 15 or older and enrolled in Medicare

You can get your own Medicare card and number if you’re 15 or older and enrolled in Medicare.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare Safety Nets

What are the Medicare Safety Nets thresholds

Find the threshold amounts for Medicare Safety Nets.

1. Health Care Card
2. Who needs to apply

Renewing a Health Care Card

If you’re still eligible to get a health care card, we’ll issue you a new card before the current one ends. You don’t need to do anything.

How to prove your identity with Centrelink

You need to prove your identity before you claim a payment or service.

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

Remove someone from a Medicare card

You can update your card when your circumstances change.

1. Medicare self service
2. Medicare online account

Medicare online account terms and conditions

These terms and conditions apply to all access and use of Medicare online account including the submit a complaint or provide feedback service.

1. Medicare
2. Most useful information

PBS/RPBS Safety Net prescription record form and application for a Safety Net card form (PB240)

Use this form to help you keep a record of how much you have spent on PBS/RPBS medicines and to apply for a PBS Safety Net card.

1. Medicare Compensation Recovery
2. What you need to know

Notice of past benefits for Medicare compensation recovery

A Notice of past benefits lists the Medicare benefits you need to repay from your compensation.

1. Reciprocal Health Care Agreements
2. When you visit Australia

Reciprocal Health Care Agreements - visiting from Italy

If you’re visiting Australia from Italy, you may be eligible for medical care under Medicare for a period of 6 months while you’re here.