Top payments for seeking medical help

1. Health Care Card
2. Who can get a card

What other Health Care Cards are available

There are other cards that may suit you better.

1. Self service
2. Medicare self service

Express Plus Medicare mobile app

The app retired on 1 November 2025. Use the myGov app to manage your Medicare information.

1. Top payments
2. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

How to manage your PBS medicine overseas

There are laws and restrictions on the amount and types of PBS medicine you can take or send overseas.

1. Top payments
2. Australian Immunisation Register

How to update your personal details so your details are correct on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)

How to control who sees your record on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) and getting letters about your record.

1. Health and disability
2. Seeking medical help

Seeking medical help to recover

Find out what help you can get while you’re recovering from an injury or illness.

Proving your identity over the phone with Centrelink

How to prove who you are over the phone.

1. Medicare
2. What's covered

Screening, tests and scans covered by Medicare

You may be able to access preventive cancer screening programs. We can also help with the cost of a range of tests and scans.

1. Medicare
2. How to claim

Private health insurance and Medicare

Private health insurance may help to cover some health care costs that we don’t.

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

Keep track of your PBS medicines

Keep track of your PBS medicines so you know when you’ve reached the PBS Safety Net threshold.

1. Top payments
2. Social work services

How to contact social work services

You can speak to a social worker over the phone.