The Extended Medicare Safety Net provides additional coverage for patients who incur high health care costs: once a threshold for total out-of-pocket costs is reached (AUS$610.70 [US$582] for individuals with concession cards and low-income families, and AUS$1,221.90 [US$1,164] for general patients), the patient has 80 percent of his or her out-ofpocket costs reimbursed for the remainder of the calendar year.