An online vendor is using a ‘darknet’ auction site to sell individual Australian Medicare card details for 0.0089 bitcoin, or $22, according to The Guardian. 2. The vendor is ranked as “highly trusted ...

Australia's healthcare system is a one-of-a-kind mix of public and private services. Medicare is the universal public safety net, and there is also a large private health insurance market. Medicare ...

Medicare, Australia’s national health insurance scheme, is set for its biggest boost in funding since its creation half a century ago, as both major political parties promise billions ahead of this ...

Medicare is 30 years old and is the scheme that publicly funds Australia’s universal health care system. Medicare has always generated political conflict. From 1972 to 1984 Australia became the first ...

Chief executive Lynelle Briggs said the nature of the services Medicare provided was "shifting as the government leverages our relationship with the community", such as its delivery of ceiling ...

(Bloomberg) -- Australia imposed cybersecurity sanctions for the first time on a Russian hacker over his role in the breach of healthcare insurer Medibank Private Ltd. that exposed the sensitive ...

Scammers are using AI to create 'super clones' of government messages and they are becoming much harder to spot.

A new study led by Flinders University researchers has found that Medicare restrictions are preventing many homebound Australians from accessing telehealth services. Their findings underscored the ...

More than $115 million will be spent to integrate 520 Centrelink and Medicare Australia shopfronts. A four-year program has also been launched to allow customers to claim online. The new service will ...

Unlocking an “Aladdin’s cave” of Medicare data is the key to saving Australia’s celebrated health system and changing ...