How to claim your slice of $260 million in unpaid Medicare refunds

More than a 4th of a cardinal dollars successful Medicare refunds are sitting untouched, fresh for Australians to claim.

Fortunately, there's an easy hole for nan rate to onshore backmost successful your pouch overmuch sooner than you mightiness think.

If you've ever been to a GP aliases specialist's session and utilized your Medicare paper you could beryllium owed money from nan government. Nationally, there's much than $260 cardinal owed to 960,000 patients.

Even connected a state-by-state basis, nan numbers are staggering, pinch $81 cardinal owed successful NSW, $64 cardinal to Victorians, $51 cardinal to Queenslanders, $30 cardinal successful Western Australia and $19 cardinal successful South Australia.

"You spell to nan doctor, you manus complete your paper and past you mightiness not cheque what happens next," Services Australia organization accusation serviceman Justin Bott said.

Failing to follow-up is what could beryllium costing patients refunds they're entitled to.

"The mean is astir $265 aliases truthful … location are a fewer group that are complete $10,000," Bott said.

The oversight happens erstwhile you don't make judge Medicare has your astir up-to-date slope details, for lawsuit erstwhile you've changed banks aliases closed an account.

Australians aged 18 to 25 are nan biggest group missing retired truthful it pays to check. 

"It's decidedly not thing I would deliberation astir erstwhile I'm rushing around," student Rosie Gallagher said.

All it takes is logging successful to MyGov and heading to your Medicare relationship to cheque everything is correct.

Once you've changed your slope details, nan update will registry pinch Medicare automatically and if you're owed money, nan rate should show up successful your relationship wrong 3 days.

"It mightiness not beryllium you, but possibly it's your child, your grandchild that has that money owing, get them to cheque arsenic well, because again, what a awesome coming to find that money being paid to them," Bott said.

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