You don’t need Medicare to book, but if you have a card, adding your details is genuinely useful: it allows your doctor to issue ePrescriptions (eScripts), and to include your Medicare details on pathology requests and specialist referrals so you can access Medicare rebates on those services. The consultation itself is privately billed: it isn’t possible for telehealth providers like Qoctor to offer Medicare rebates for most telehealth appointments, due to the Medicare “12 month face to face rule”, a legislative requirement that GPs can only provide a rebated telehealth service where they have an established clinical relationship with the patient and have seen them in person in the past 12 months, with limited exemptions.