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Australia's medicare bulk billing rate was 75.7% as of December 2025. The long-term trend is getting worse, though the recent 12-month direction is broadly stable. Percentage of Medicare (MBS) services that are bulk billed — meaning patients pay no out-of-pocket cost. Bulk billing makes healthcare affordable. A declining rate signals reduced access to free GP and specialist visits. Data is sourced from AIHW MBS Funded Services Monthly Data; Medicare Statistics Collection and updated monthly.
Percentage of Medicare (MBS) services that are bulk billed — meaning patients pay no out-of-pocket cost.
Bulk billing makes healthcare affordable. A declining rate signals reduced access to free GP and specialist visits.
Higher is better
Source: AIHW MBS Funded Services Monthly Data; Medicare Statistics Collection
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (AIHW MBS Funded Services Monthly Data; Medicare Statistics Collection), updated monthly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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