Program · Outcome 1: A reduction of the risks to patients and costs to the Australian Government of inappropriate practice, including through investigating health services claimed under the Medicare and Pharmaceutical benefits schemes
Program 1.1: Safeguarding the Integrity of the Medicare Program and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
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$17m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$88k (+0.5%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $15m | $16m | +$262k +1.7% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 760 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $1.4m | $1.2m | −$174k −12.4% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 761 |
| Operating deficit (surplus) | departmental | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 759 |