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28 June 2024 - A new look CHSP Manual for 2024-25 is now available

4 July 2024 - MyMedicare is a new voluntary patient registration model. It aims to formalise the relationship between patients, their general practice, general practitioner and primary care teams. Find out who is eligible and how you can register.

22 December 2024 - Medicare safety nets give you extra support if you have high out-of-pocket medical costs. Once you incur a certain amount of out-of-pocket costs for out-of-hospital medical services, Medicare gives you a higher amount back for the rest of the year.

24 March 2025 - This fact sheet includes indicative price ranges for most Support at Home services. These price ranges reflect what Home Care Package Program providers have reported that they intend to charge from 1 July 2025.

24 March 2025 - The AGPT Program is a way to become a general practitioner (GP) in Australia. Registrars who complete the program can work unsupervised as a GP anywhere in the country. We fund 1,500 training places every year. Australia’s GP colleges deliver this program for us.

12 March 2025 - Read the latest news on COVID-19.

18 October 2024 - Private health insurers are required to pay benefits for the products listed on the Prescribed List – previously known as the Prostheses List. Find out what the Prescribed List includes, when we update it, and how to apply to list products on the Prescribed List or change current listings.

2 April 2025 - The experiences of older people living in aged care provide important insights into the quality of services they access. The Residents’ Experience Survey (formerly known as the Consumer Experience Interviews) enables aged care residents to tell us about the quality of their aged care.

1 March 2022 - Access to culturally appropriate primary care provides for better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We fund health providers to deliver comprehensive, culturally appropriate primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

17 February 2025 - Trachoma still occurs in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We work with the affected states and territories to identify, treat and prevent this condition. We also report to the World Health Organization’s program to eradicate trachoma across the world.