In financial year 2024, approximately 350 million Medicare services that were processed were paid through Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to health professionals. Claims made to Medicare are made by health professionals in the form of bulk billing, by hospitals, billing agents, providers, and day surgeries through a simplified billing system, or by patients themselves.
Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial years 2014 to 2024, by payment type
(in millions)
Australia's financial year runs from July 1 to June 30; for example, financial year 2017 starts on July 1, 2016 and ends on June 30, 2017.
*Checks to claimants ended from July 1, 2016.
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Services Australia. (October 14, 2024). Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial years 2014 to 2024, by payment type (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 07, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/
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