Services
Medicare
Medicare ensures that all Australians have access to free or low-cost medical, optometrical and hospital care while being free to choose private health services and in special circumstances allied health services.
Our purpose
Serving the Australian community by assisting in improving health outcomes in Australia.
Medicare Australia works in partnership with the Department of Health and Ageing to achieve the Australian Government's health policy objectives. Our activities are conducted within the government policy framework set by the Department of Health and Ageing, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and relevant legislation.
The health programs we administer include:
- Medicare-Australia's universal health care program
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
- Australian Organ Donor Register
- Medicare Teen Dental Plan
- Australian Government 30% Private Health Insurance Rebate
- General Practice Immunisation Incentives Scheme
- Practice Incentives Program
- Rural Retention Program-HECS Reimbursement Scheme and General Practice Registrars' rural Incentive Payments Scheme
- claims processing and payments for the Department of Veterans' Affairs (including the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme), the Office of Hearing Services and the Health Department of Western Australia.
- Family Assistance Office in partnership with other Australian government agencies
- Special assistance schemes(including Bali 2005 Special Assistance, London Assist, Tsunami Healthcare Assistance Scheme and Balimed).
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