Medicare is Australia’s universal health care system that provides subsidised health care services to the Australia population. It was established in 1984 under the Health Insurance Act 1973 and is a universal system with the goal of providing Australians with affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care. Resources and Information:
For further information on Medicare, please refer to Services Australia.
To submit a claim, you can use:
For eLearning and Infographics, please visit the Services Australia Health Professionals Online Services (HPOS).
There are some item numbers that have restrictions on claiming due to timeframes or numbers of claims. To ensure a patient is eligible to claim for an item number with such restrictions you can check a patients MBS claiming history for eligibility includes: