Top payments for Medicare

1. Retirement years
2. Most useful information

International bank account form (AUS178)

Use this form to tell us your bank account details if you can get your Centrelink payment outside Australia.

1. How to claim
2. How your Medicare card and account work

Organ and tissue donation

Give the gift of life and register your decision to donate your organs or tissue after you die.

1. Medicare Entitlement Statement
2. How to get one

After you apply for a Medicare Entitlement Statement

We’ll process your application. It may take up to 8 weeks to process your application if you apply between July and November.

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

When your Medicare compensation claim reaches settlement or judgment

When your compensation claim reaches settlement or judgment, you or your compensation payer have to repay any amount owing.

1. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
2. How to manage your PBS medicine overseas

Posting PBS medicine overseas

You can’t legally send some PBS medicines overseas.

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

Medicare services for rural and remote Australians

We can help you get health care if you live in a rural or remote area.

1. What you need to do
2. When your claim reaches settlement or judgment

Complete a Medicare Compensation Recovery Section 23A statement

Complete a Section 23A Statement if you don’t have a valid Notice of past benefits.

1. When Australians go overseas
2. About reciprocal health care agreements

Reciprocal Health Care Agreement - visiting Norway

The Reciprocal Health Care Agreement (RHCA) we have with Norway may cover some of your medical costs in Norway’s public health system.

1. Seeking medical help
2. Top payments

Australian Government rebate on Private Health Insurance

A reduction for part of your private health insurance costs based on age and annual earnings.

1. Low Income Health Care Card
2. How to manage your card

Change of circumstances when you hold a Low Income Health Care Card

You need to tell us if your circumstances change. This is to make sure you’re still eligible for a Low Income Health Care Card.