You can complete a Section 23A statement if you haven’t received any relevant Medicare benefits or care since either:
- the date of injury
- your last notice of past benefits.
The Medicare Compensation Recovery Section 23A statement is a declaration that you haven’t:
- had a Notice of past benefits issued in the past 6 months
- received any further eligible benefits
- received further eligible benefits relating to the claim, since the Notice of past benefits expired.
Send the completed statement and declaration to the address on the form. When we get this statement, along with the settlement documents, we’ll send you and the compensation payer a new Notice of charge. This states the amount that needs to repaid to us.
The compensation payer will use the Notice of charge to pay us first. Then they’ll pay the rest of the compensation money to you. This usually takes up to 3 months.