Most viewed payments for Medicare

1. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
2. When you spend a lot on PBS medicines

PBS Safety Net Card application

How to apply for a PBS Safety Net card to get cheaper PBS medicines.

1. Medicare
2. What's covered

Who's covered by Medicare

Support for families, children, Indigenous Australians, and people living in remote areas.

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. Health Care Card

How to manage your Health Care Card

Your options and obligations to hold a Health Care Card.

1. Medicare
2. What's covered

About Medicare

Medicare is Australia’s universal health care system.

1. What's covered
2. Who's covered by Medicare

Children's health care covered by Medicare

We cover some or all of your child’s health care costs.

1. Seeking medical help
2. Top payments

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Some prescription medicines can cost a lot of money. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) can lower the cost.

1. Separated parents
2. Most useful information

Objecting to a Child Support decision form (CS1893)

Use this form to object to a child support decision we made that you disagree with.

1. Medicare
2. Most useful information

Medicare Compensation Recovery Section 23A statement form (MO023)

Use this form to declare you received no benefits, or received no further benefits since your most recent expired notice, for your compensable injury or illness.

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Sep 2025

The Express Plus Medicare mobile app is retiring soon

From 1 November 2025, you’ll need to use the myGov app to keep using your Medicare services through an app.