Change of gender for Medicare enrolments 011-44110020
This document outlines information about how to action a change of gender for Medicare enrolments in Consumer Directory Maintenance System (CDMS).
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Change of gender in CDMS for customers aged 15 years or older
Change of gender in CDMS for a child under 15 years of age
Change of gender in CDMS for customers aged 15 years or older
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Request received to update gender for a customer aged 15 years or older + Read more ... If the request was received:
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Request received in PaNDA + Read more ... Requests received in PaNDA require Service Officers to make an outbound call attempt to authenticate the customer and confirm their request. Was the customer contact successful?
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Authenticate customer for enquiries by phone + Read more ... Was authentication successful? See Authenticating a Medicare customer.
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CDMS home page + Read more ... On the CDMS Home page:
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Personal details + Read more ... In Consumers, select the radio button against the customer to be changed. In Personal Details:
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Sensitive Information Indicator + Read more ... Where a customer has requested a gender change, Service Officers must add a Sensitive Information Indicator to their record. On the Sensitive Information tab:
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Complete update + Read more ... Make any other updates in the remaining fields in CDMS, as required. For example, their title. If the customer requires a change of name, see Change legal name on Medicare record.
Are the details on the screen correct?
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Change of gender in CDMS for a child under 15 years of age
Table 2
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Request received to update gender for a child under 15 years of age + Read more ... If the request was received:
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Request received in PaNDA + Read more ... Requests received in PaNDA require Service Officers to make an outbound call attempt to authenticate the customer and confirm their request. Was the customer contact successful?
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Identify and authenticate the parent/guardian + Read more ... See Authenticating a Medicare customer. A request to update the gender of the child must be:
Was authentication successful?
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Confirm the details to update + Read more ... If the parent/guardian requests to:
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Check if the gender was incorrectly recorded during enrolment + Read more ... Where a Service Officer or customer identifies that the gender was incorrectly recorded at the time of enrolment, and this is confirmed by:
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CDMS home page + Read more ... On the CDMS Home page:
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Correct customer's gender + Read more ... In Consumers, select the radio button against the customer to be changed. In Personal Details:
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Complete update + Read more ...
Are the details on the screen correct?
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Escalate request + Read more ... Requests to update gender may include a request to update a customer’s name. A child under the age of 15 must be known by their legal name at Group and Personal. The exception is where the child is undergoing a change of gender, and a preferred name may be recorded in Group under some circumstances. For change of gender requests (including change of gender related requests for a preferred name) for children under the age of 15 undergoing change of gender, escalate the request by:
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