Know what's due for your health.

If your GP already sits you down once a year and works through what's due for your age, you don't need this. Medicare also funds structured assessments through your usual practice: a health assessment at 45 to 49 if you're at risk of chronic disease, one a year from 75, one a year at any age for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and chronic condition management plans, which since July 2025 have to be done where you're registered with MyMedicare. Due doesn't do any of those and doesn't use up your eligibility for them — ask your usual GP. Most people don't get a structured preventive review, not because their GP doesn't care, but because a standard appointment is 10 to 15 minutes for the problem you came with, and prevention happens in the gaps. This review is 45 minutes for prevention and nothing else, works from a written schedule rather than memory, records what's already been done, and one doctor orders, follows up and explains every result. If you don't have a regular GP, it's a place to start.

No. A general check-up runs the same tests on everyone. This review works from the checks guidelines recommend for a man of your age and risk, Australian ones first, each on its own evidence, and leaves out the ones that don't apply to you.

The standard tests in this review measure more than forty individual markers, including several the commercial panels leave out. The difference isn't the number; it's that every test here is ordered for a stated reason, most are covered by Medicare, and nothing is added to make a bigger list.

Australia's 2026 guidelines recommend a PSA test every two years from 50 to 69, after an informed discussion with your doctor. From 45 if you're at higher risk — a brother with prostate cancer, a father diagnosed at any age, two or more uncles or grandfathers affected, Black sub-Saharan African ancestry, or a BRCA2, Lynch or hereditary breast and ovarian cancer gene fault. If you're 45 to 49, not at higher risk, and you want to know, a single test can be discussed: under 1.0 means nothing further until 50. Routine testing in that age group isn't recommended. From 70 it depends on your overall health, and it isn't offered at any age if your life expectancy is under seven years, because the benefit takes that long to appear. The level that prompts action isn't one number — it depends on your age and risk, and your doctor works it out for you. A raised result is always repeated before anything happens, and an MRI comes before any biopsy. The test is covered by Medicare.

About $285 out of pocket for both appointments, if you're eligible for the Medicare rebate. That's the initial consultation, $325 with a gap of about $203, and the results appointment, a standard consultation of $124.95 with a gap of about $80. Standard tests are covered by Medicare. If you choose an optional test that isn't covered, you pay the provider directly and you'll know the price beforehand. The full breakdown.

You'll be told what it means and what happens next at the results appointment. We follow up every result we order; nothing is handed to another doctor to sort out. Borderline results are common and usually mean nothing, and we'll tell you which ones those are rather than leaving you to look them up. We choose tests whose results lead to a clear next step, which is the main reason the list is short.