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 year, meaning that there were “major issues” with the project and that its successful delivery would require changes to budget, schedule, scope or benefits.
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