Medicare name change
Updating your name with Medicare is free and quick. Here is how to do it through myGov or the Medicare form, what proof you need, and how Surname Switch fills the form in for you.
Get StartedMedicare is free to update. You change your name with Medicare, run by Services Australia, either through your Medicare online account in myGov, the Express Plus Medicare app, or by completing Medicare's change of details form. There is no fee.
Step by step
Use your Medicare online account through myGov or the Express Plus Medicare app, or download Medicare's change of name and details form.
Update your name to match your proof of name change. On the Powered plan, Surname Switch prefills this form with the details you entered once.
Provide your marriage certificate or change of name certificate as proof of the new name.
Lodge the update; a new Medicare card in your name is then issued to you.
Medicare is a foundation update worth doing early, alongside your driver licence, because together they give you ID in your new name that the rest of your organisations readily accept.
Your Medicare is just one of around 55 updates. Enter your details once and Surname Switch prefills your official forms, drafts every email, and gives you one ordered checklist of your actual companies, so nothing is forgotten. See the full checklist.
Medicare name change questions
Straight answers to what people actually ask about changing their name on their Medicare.
You update your name with Medicare through your Medicare online account in myGov, the Express Plus Medicare app, or by completing Medicare's change of details form, with your marriage certificate or change of name certificate as proof. It is free.
No. Updating your name and being issued a new Medicare card is free.
Yes, a new card in your updated name is issued once you change your details, and your card number usually stays the same.
Yes. The fastest way is through your Medicare online account in myGov or the Express Plus Medicare app, where you update your details and upload your proof.
Your official marriage certificate (after marriage) or your change of name certificate from Births, Deaths and Marriages (for a formal change).
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