RebateRight API Documentation
The RebateRight API provides everything your software system needs to integrate with Medicare, the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR), and MBS Item Search — handling the complexity of government healthcare systems so you don’t have to.
Patient verification, eligibility checks, and claiming — all through a single, consistent API.
Access the Australian Immunisation Register for vaccination records across all patient types.
Query the complete catalogue of ~6,000 MBS items with descriptions, rebate values, and rules.
Getting Started
Complete first-time setup
In the RebateRight app, open First-time setup and work through activation. You will finish with an API key and Minor ID (and any Services Australia steps your products require). If you only use the web app, Connection Settings stores those values — you do not send HTTP headers yourself.
Environments
Two environments are available. Use test while you build, validate, and demo with non-live patient data. Switch to production when you are ready to go live.
Host
api.rebateright.com.au
Data
Live Medicare, DVA, and AIR — real patients and real providers.
Cost
Billed per your agreement for API usage in this environment.
Typical use
Go-live, pilots with real patients, production workflows.
Host
test-api.rebateright.com.au
Data
Prepared test patients and providers: Integration test data.
Cost
Free API usage in this environment — not metered or invoiced.
Typical use
Development, QA, integration tests, and test demos.
Explore the Documentation
Understand how your application interacts with RebateRight and the external services it connects to.
Learn about our zero data persistence architecture, Australian data sovereignty, and compliance certifications.
Required for Claiming and AIR endpoints. Step-by-step guide to registering with Services Australia.
How RebateRight authenticates with Medicare and government services on your behalf.
Overview of RebateRight’s integration with the Australian Immunisation Register.
Common errors and how to resolve them, from authentication issues to Medicare claim validation.
AI-Ready Documentation
Every page is structured in clean Markdown — feed any page, or the entire docs, directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or your CLI tools to get AI-generated code, request bodies, and integration logic tailored to your stack.
Use the Ask AI button in the search bar to ask plain English questions and get instant answers about endpoints, schemas, and error codes.
Share any page URL with your AI assistant, or import the OpenAPI spec into your IDE for intelligent autocomplete and code generation.
Point your AI pipelines at a single, always-current file:
/llms-full.txt— full content/llms.txt— table of contents
URL never changes. Content updates with every release.
Our team is here to help with any questions, issues, or feedback about your integration.
Email us at support@rebateright.com.au and we’ll get back to you promptly.
Participating health professionals may utilise the services and information provided, including personal information, only in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988, Health Insurance Act 1973, Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015 and other relevant legislation, State or Territory legislation, Policy and Guidelines.
