In financial year 2022, approximately 421 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 year 2014 to 2022, by payment type
(in millions)
Characteristic
EFT to health professional
EFT to claimant
Payment to private health fund or billing agent
EFTPOS payment to claimant
Pay doctor via claimant cheque
Check to claimant*
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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 13, 2022). Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial year 2014 to 2022, by payment type (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/
Services Australia. "Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial year 2014 to 2022, by payment type (in millions)." Chart. October 13, 2022. Statista. Accessed July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/
Services Australia. (2022). Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial year 2014 to 2022, by payment type (in millions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/
Services Australia. "Total Number of Medicare Services Processed in Australia from Financial Year 2014 to 2022, by Payment Type (in Millions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Oct 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/
Services Australia, Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial year 2014 to 2022, by payment type (in millions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/ (last visited July 22, 2024)
Total number of Medicare services processed in Australia from financial year 2014 to 2022, by payment type (in millions) [Graph], Services Australia, October 13, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/702952/australia-medicare-services-by-payment-type/