Govt’s $400m Medicare tech upgrade program back in the red


Denham Sadler
Senior Reporter

The federal government’s long-running Medicare tech upgrade project has been placed back on “red” status due to delays to a number of deliverables, with nearly $400 million already spent.

The health delivery modernisation program was launched by the former Coalition government in 2018 and involves long-running upgrades of the legacy payment systems that underpin Medicare and other health payments.

The project was languishing on “red status” for most of last …

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