We stand to lose billions in blockbuster drug patent challenge

27 February 2025 - One of the reasons rare earths brought Presidents Trump and Zelinsky together is the looming boom ...

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Value for private health insurance

26 February 2025 - The Australian Government has ensured Australians get value for money from their private health insurance. ...

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We could be paying too much for knee and hip replacements

18 February 2025 - As more baby boomers have their joints replaced and the population struggles with obesity, we need to ...

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Bupa and Healthscope end battle over hospital payments, meaning no gap fees for stays

31 January 2025 - Millions of Bupa customers will avoid incurring gap fees for stays at Healthscope hospitals after the ...

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Peter’s prostate cancer diagnosis came as a shock. Now, he wants to protect his kids.

14 January 2025 - Peter had no symptoms when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Now, he’d like to see an ...

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Labor leaves genetics loophole for life insurers

21 December 2024 - One of the last barriers to widespread genetic testing — discrimination against obtaining life insurance — ...

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MSAC publishes agenda for April 2025 MSAC meeting

27 November 2024 - - The MSAC Secretariat has published a list of applications scheduled to be considered by the ...

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Insurer greed to inflict more financial pain on patients

22 November 2024 - Following Bupa and the Australian Health Services Alliance (AHSA)’s refusal to acknowledge the viability crisis impacting ...

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Establishing Genomics Australia

15 November 2024 - The Albanese Government is establishing a new national body to provide leadership, coordination and expertise so ...

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Different models, same results: considerations when choosing between approaches to model cost effectiveness of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy versus standard of care

7 September 2024 - Chimeric antigen-receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T) is characterised by early phase data at the time of registration, high ...

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Funding battle over a critical medicine is the latest front in private health war

29 October 2024 - Private hospital groups are warning that patients will increasingly be slugged with out of pocket costs as ...

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Healthscope to slug Bupa patients $100 for overnight hospital stays

29 October 2024 - Healthscope will charge customers of Bupa and Australian Health Service Alliance funds a $100 gap fee ...

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MSAC publishes agenda for November 2024 MSAC meeting

31 July 2024 - The MSAC Secretariat has published a list of applications scheduled to be considered by the MSAC ...

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St Vincent’s splits with insurer NIB amid private hospitals ‘crisis’

4 July 2024 - Australia’s largest non-profit hospital operator says Labor is yet to fully grapple with a crisis facing ...

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Private health sector on life support as patients’ care delayed

21 June 2024 - The health insurance industry is facing the growing prospect of unprecedented government intervention in its contracting ...

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