You must also be living in Australia, unless you are visiting from Italy or the UK.
You can enrol as an individual or as a family.
You need to have:
Find out what documents you need if you are a permanent resident or have applied for permanent residency on the Services Australia website.
If you have created a myGov account, sign in to enrol in Medicare.
Follow these steps to enrol in Medicare through your myGov account:
You can also use the myGov app to enrol in Medicare.
If you have included someone else who is 15 or older, give that person your application number.
To complete their enrolment, they need to sign in to their own myGov account and provide the number, their details and their identity documents.
You can view the status of your enrolment application by signing in to myGov and selecting Go to Medicare from your linked services.
When the status of your application changes, you will get a message in your myGov Inbox.
If your application is approved, you’ll get your Medicare card in the mail.
You can use your Medicare card details to link Medicare to your myGov account.
If it is not working, read more about common error messages when linking Medicare to myGov on the Services Australia website. If you still need help, call the Medicare program line on the Services Australia website.