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Australian Medicare card number

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Australian Medicare card number is supported in a 10-digit format as some systems do not support the 11-digit card number. The 10-digit Medicare card number is not sufficient to uniquely identify the number associated with an individual on a Medicare card as a card can include up to 9 individuals.

Validator

Validator

Description

Australian Medicare Number Validator

This validator checks for the:

  • Australian Medicare Number Validator-specific position-weighted checksum

  • First digit and must be in the range 2–6

  • Last digit (issue number) and can't be 0



Matched expressions

Regex expressions

Description

Score

\b\d{4}-\d{5}-\d\b

Matches a 10-digit number of the format NNNN-NNNNN-N delimited by hyphen.

1

\b\d{4} \d{5} \d\b

Matches a 10-digit number of the format NNNN NNNNN N delimited by space.

1

\b\d{10}\b

Matches a 10-digit number without a delimiter.

1



Ignored expressions

None