- Description
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Location of Medicare offices.
For customers looking for their nearest Medicare office, please find your nearest Medicare Service Centre on humanservices.gov.au. The Department of Human Services Service Centre locator contains information updated weekly, a search function and maps. The data below is provided for application developers or those wishing to reuse the data for other purposes. It is important that application developers keep the data up to date with the current version available on this website
Are you looking for your nearest Medicare office?
Please visit the Medicare shopfront locator here: humanservices.findnearest.com.au
This page hosts the underlying/raw dataset for developers and IT related industries to utilise.
- Download
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- medicare_offices_2013_05_07.csv (CSV/XLS) 62.44KB - 782 hits
- mca_access_points2013_05_07.csv (CSV/XLS) 21.71KB - 45 hits
- Date Published
- 2009-08-31
- Date Updated
- 7 May 2013
- Update Frequency
- Monthly
Dataset Information
- data.gov.au Category
- Government, Health
- Keywords / Tags
- Health Administration, health-care, healthcare system
- Licence
- Creative Commons - Attribution (CC-BY 2.5)
- Permalink
- http://data.gov.au/66
Contributing Agency Information
- Agency
- Medicare Australia (View all datasets from Medicare Australia)
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Agency Program
Dataset Coverage
- Temporal Coverage
- Not specified
- Geospatial Coverage
- Australia
- Granularity
- Medicare Offices
The location of Medicare offices has been updated. It now receives a feed updated daily.
Enjoy!
I just wasted an hour looking for the Medicare Office at Leichhardt Marketown, going to Centre Management to be told it is now in Balmain Road, Leichhardt, going there and finding that it is not open till 5 pm as stated but closes at 4:30 pm every day from Monday to Friday. Please update your locations and times.
Glad I read your post because it has not been updated yet.
Thank you
This site is just another typical Aus Gov site, a whole heap of crap that dosn’t make sence…
i dont know computers much but i do know its an easy thing to hire a designer and make a few simple, well presented links…
The immigration site is all the same, confusing as hell..
and then there’s roads and traffic…
help us by helping your site a little!!! your fone lines wont end up so blocked if we could navigate the sites better!!!!
Toughen up Ryan
You big sook
Learn how to use a computer first, then make criticisms later.
Looks like the link details should be updated from the old HIC (Health Insurance Commission) naming scheme to Medicare Australia.
http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/public/claims/offices.jsp
Thanks for that pickup John – we will provide this information to Medicare for them to rectify the issue.
At the request of the department, this will now be updated on a monthly basis.
June 2012 update now available.
Why are there only 2 Medicare Centres in the Eastern Suburbs? At present you almost have to take a day off work to stand in line at both centres – especially Eastgardens/Pagewood !!!!
Try to find a medcare office, here on line. But all the B/S you need to do. Would be better just to go for a drive.
Rick
Totally agree…
Totally agree…
Surely the search engine can be made simpler and quicker to use.
why is there no medicare office in the coomera area? why do we have to travel so faar? petrol is not that cheap & neither is public transport – we wont even go there!!! Angela
There doesn’t seem to be a Medicare office anywhere in Melbourne city. I have searched multiple sights for an outlet. The only one listed anywhere is 600 Collins St. Went there and……..no longer at that address!!! Like a previous message said – better off just driving around till I find one. Taxes at work!!
Andrew – there is an office in Bourke Street, near the corner of Exhibition Street, not far from the head office of Australia Post, just along the same stretch of that part of Bourke Street.
Shop 7 Ground Floor
Southern Cross 1
121 Exhibition Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Otherwise, I think there is still one in Elizabeth Street, the shopping centre that spans from Little Collins to Bourke Street, the address is given as Bourke Street, but I think access is easiest from along Elizabeth Street – the Medicare office is hidden at the back, past a pile of shops –
Shop E17 Ground Floor
Galleria Shopping Plaza
385 Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
I know this because I work in the city. I think they are the only two offices in the CBD.
could the medicare office in werribee be better signed as you can no see where it is from the road when you are looking for it
To improve the user experience possibly make the reference to humanservices.gov.au. an actual link to save the end user having to cut and paste.
Definitely needed. Could someone please make it a clickable link?
Hi Lisa I was wondering if you could give me an email to touch base anout the humanservices site informetion you have.
Googled for medicare offices and got
https://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/public/claims/offices.shtml
which has links for each state/territory as it should ……BUT….the Vic links (and couple of others tried) lead to “page not found”. I note the page was last updated in February 2008. Pity medicare offices have kept shifting in the meantime. Perhaps the old tech method of phoning might get the answers needed….or there’s the drive around pot luck method to fall back on….I don’t feel better now
Unfortunately that is a really old list from 2008 that is in the process of being removed. The data at http://www.humanservices.gov.au/findus is the most up to date unless you are trying to write an app or mashup.
“Unfortunately” is the wrong word. Government information should not rely on good fortune/ luck. To me it’s a question of organisational competence. I note it would be classed as incompetence if a professional gave out-of date advice, or negligence if relevant advice wasn’t given. How hard could it be to update links as needed. Thank you for the link provided Mark, but the csv file at the top of this page contained the information required after I re-sorted the data. Can the link you provided be posted up there? It is after all far more convenient and effective. Regards.
@T.O – if you’re going to pick on word choice – make sure you know what the word you are picking on actually means. “Unfortunately” can also mean regrettably or unsuitable. In this case – the usage is correct. Unfortunately, you don’t appear to have figured that out.
Second – giving out of date advice is not necessarily an indication of incompetence. You clearly don’t understand what the purpose of data.gov.au is. Suggest you review the homepage. You won’t though – so I’ll paste the relevant bit here.
Interestingly, nowhere does it state they give advice. In fact, they are “data” providers, not information providers – and they leave it up to the consumer of the data to turn it into information.
So T.O – get off your horse, pull your head in, and get on with your life.
Where do I find a simple listing of Medicare ‘service centres’ in Melbourne CBD? I have spent 15 minutes trawling government websites and White Pages, but found nothing. What have I missed?
Hi Peter,
The “simple listing” is actually found above in the two csv files, however a more user friendly option, that uses the same data (found above) can be found on the Dept. of Human Services, Locate Us webpage. http://humanservices.findnearest.com.au/
Tick the boxes corresponding to Medicare. Start entering the search term, “Melbourne” into the text box.
Then Click [Locate].
This is a very poor site for basic Medicare information.Why don’t you set up a better search capability for Medicare Ioffices by state/city or postcode rather than provide raw excel data?
You might utilise the Aust Post Post Code search model as a template for better easier search.
I am looking for Melbourne / Bourke St opening hours and am still in the dark – how hard can this be?
This page is designed for application developers to ingest and reuse the raw data. You’re looking for the nice interactive office locator: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/findus
What a head FCUK, trying to find locations of medicare offices.
I also did not know that Medicare Chirnside Park (Vic) was not there anymore.
I live in the Yarra Valley and the closest to us is now Eastland Ringwood
Pls update your Medicare addresses on Internet. I have walked along Bourke street found 460 and no Medicare!!!! This is not the first time I have had difficulty finding a place to get a refund. Now I travel home by train only to get friend to drive me to Airport West to a Centrelink office to get refund grrrr. Not happy..!!
There’s one in the Galleria Plaza
“For customers looking for their nearest Medicare office, please find your nearest Medicare Service Centre on humanservices.gov.au. The Department of Human Services Service Centre locator contains information updated weekly, a search function and maps. The data below is provided for application developers or those wishing to reuse the data for other purposes. It is important that application developers keep the data up to date with the current version available on this website”
I have a really radical idea. How about putting the locations of medicare centres on this page.
humanservices.findnearest.com.au
This site is the worst I have navigated.
Medicare has gone back 20 years. typical gov. website
I waited 40 minutes at our relocated office at Marion and there were no signs or directions visible
the office is as bad as this website.
Thanks Phillip, luckily we are replacing this site with the new open data platform within a very short time frame (a week or two) so stay tuned. Check out http://agimo.gov.au/2013/04/10/draft-roadmap-for-data-gov-au for more information
Just a note to let you know that this dataset has been updated and that we’ve also made changes to the dataset description to include links to the Department of Human Services storefront locator tool.