Title: How to enrol and get started in Medicare - Enrolling your baby in Medicare - Services Australia
Headings: Enrolling your baby in Medicare
Enrolling your baby in Medicare
If you claim a Centrelink family payment
If you don’t claim a Centrelink family payment
Using your online account or mobile device
Using your Newborn Child Declaration form
Using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicare enrolment and amendment form
If you don’t have a Newborn Child Declaration form

Content: Family Tax Benefit including Newborn Upfront Payment and Newborn Supplement
Parental Leave Pay
Dad and Partner Pay. Use your completed Newborn Child Declaration form in your claim. It’s in the Parent Pack your hospital or midwife gives you. You can submit a copy of the form using either: your Centrelink online account through myGov
your Express Plus Centrelink mobile app. We’ll enrol your baby and add them to your Medicare card. We’ll also add them to the Australian Immunisation Register. We’ll send you a new Medicare card with your baby on it. You should get it in 3 to 4 weeks. You can also use the Newborn Child Declaration form to register your baby for both: