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Medical device industry signs historic agreement to reduce health funds premiums
12 October 2017 - The Medical Technology Association of Australia has signed a four-year Agreement with the Federal Government which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2017
Private health insurance industry must pass on savings
13 October 2017 - Today the Medical Technology Association of Australia calls on the Private Health Insurance to deliver to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2017
Study identifies 122 orthopaedic surgeons having troubles
10 October 2017 - A group of 122 orthopaedic surgeons had worse outcomes for hip and knee replacements than their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Oct 2017
Funding rejected for breast cancer testing
5 October 2017 - Globally recognised technology that could spare thousands of Australian breast cancer patients from unnecessary chemotherapy will ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2017
New prostheses list reforms a step towards health insurance affordability
18 September 2017 - Both the private health and medical device industries have welcomed the Government’s commitment to reforms concerning medical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2017
Greg Hunt flags 'dramatic' reductions in private health insurance prices
15 September 2017 - The Turnbull government wants "dramatic reductions" in private health insurance price rises over the next three ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2017
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority data on medical devices - apples & oranges
12 September 2017 - The Australian carries a story (‘Premium hopes rest on knees, hip’) based on the Independent Hospital ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2017
Private health insurance claims on medical device pricing debunked
12 September 2017 - Today the Medical Technology Association of Australia has released a PwC analysis of the impact of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2017
Price ‘gouge’ on private patients for medical devices
13 September 2017 - Confirmation by Australia’s medical device industry that it slugs private patients a higher fee for some ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2017
Premium cost hopes resting on knees, hips
11 September 2017 - Health Minister Greg Hunt will try to reduce pressure on insurance premiums by cutting the cost ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Sep 2017
Why health funds are prevented from paying for this lifesaving medical device
3 September 2017 - A crazy bureaucratic Catch 22 means 40,000 Aussies can’t get a health fund rebate for a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2017
NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard says more competition needed in medical device sector
27 August 2017 - The NSW Minister for Health, Brad Hazzard, says the prices of surgically implanted devices like artificial ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2017
McCain case reopens debate for brain cancer drug subsidy
25 July 2017 - Leading neurosurgeon Kate Drummond has called on the Turnbull government to break the “bureaucratic mould” and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2017
Cancers and other illnesses are going undetected because patients can’t afford $100 bill for scans
6 July 2017 - Illnesses like cancer are going undetected in 300,000 Australians because they can’t afford the scans to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jun 2017
Patient need must be first priority in public hospitals
21 June 2017 - The Consumers Health Forum supports the call for the enforcement of Medicare principles to ensure private ...