MyMedicare Registration
11 December 2023Our Practice is registered with My Medicare.
- MyMedicare is a voluntary patient registration system that aims to formalise the relationship between patients, their General Practice, GP, and Primary care teams.
Many general practices across Australia have registered in MyMedicare to support them in offering tailored care and services to fit the needs of their regular patients.
Why register for MyMedicare?
By registering as a patient of your chosen general practice and selecting a preferred GP, additional funding will be made available by the government to assist your primary care team deliver the care you need.
This funding will enable your general practice or GP to provide you with longer funded telehealth consultations and bulk billed longer telehealth consultations at the new higher rate for children under 16 and Commonwealth concession card holders.
Other benefits for patients include:
• for people living in a residential aged care home, more regular visits from their GP and better care planning, from August 2024
• for people with chronic disease who visit hospital frequently, connections to more appropriate care in general practice, from mid-2024.
Further registration benefits for patients will continue to be added over time as part of the Australian Government’s commitment to strengthening Medicare. If you choose not to register in MyMedicare, you will continue to be able to access the same care from your healthcare providers as you currently do
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For more information, please refer to the patient resoures page:
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/resources-for-mymedicare-patients?language=en
