I'm in Vic & I got something back from Medicare, but I can't remember how much. I had a number of scans during my pregancy & I got a medicare rebate of some sort for all of them.

squidipa - Make sure your "free" scans are bulk billed because if they aren't you will probably find you will end up out of pocket for them as Medicare doesn't fully cover any scans that you pay for upfront as their scheduled fee is way lower than what any scan place charges for a scan - particularly for the NT one. I had two scans that were bulk billed during the pregnancy - every other scan I had to pay for upfront & then claim back what I could through Medicare. None of them were covered fully.