Medicare benefits for health professionals

Important information

• You must apply for a unique provider number for each place of practice and profession you practise in.
• You can’t claim a Medicare benefit until we have issued your provider number for that location.
• You can’t use anyone else’s Medicare provider number.
• You aren’t eligible to claim Medicare benefits if we’ve suspended your membership or registration or if it has expired. You’re also no longer eligible if your membership level has changed.
• If you don’t have access to Medicare, you must let patients know before you treat them that they won’t get a Medicare benefit for your services.