States urging hospitals to bill health insurers is pushing up premiums, analysis shows

6 October 2017 - Public hospitals can access 44% more funding for patients if they bill their insurer, according to ...

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Exodus from private health care saves $1bn but states carry can

13 September 2017 - The private health insurance exodus is delivering more than $1 billion in unanticipated rebate savings for ...

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Health insurers demand reforms to keep premium increases low

11September 2017 - Australia’s health insurance industry has warned Health Minister Greg Hunt that if he wants consumers to have ...

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’It’s about private healthcare, not just health insurance’

11 September 2017 - An edited transcript of a private health care insurance roundtable hosted by The Australian senior business ...

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Health insurers blamed for rising health care costs

4 September 2017 - Australians blame health insurers for rising costs in the nation’s health care system, new consumer research ...

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Find common ground on health: Roxon

1 September 2017 - Former health minister Nicola Roxon has warned that Australia’s healthcare leaders need to find common ground ...

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Debate: Are doctors or insurers to blame for health insurance price hikes?

23 August 2017 - The peak body for the private health insurance industry, Private Healthcare Australia (PHA), has been warning ...

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Record number of Australians receiving Medicare benefits

21 August 2017 - More Australian patients are seeing their doctor without having to reach for their wallet with GP bulk ...

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Private health insurance not 'junk': NIB boss rejects doctors' 'paternalistic' proposal

21 August 2017 - Private health insurer NIB has rejected accusations that some policies are "junk" insurance that fail to ...

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Private health insurance 'junk' policies ripping Australians off, AMA says

21 August 2017 - Australian doctors have declared private medicine is "under siege", and are pushing the Federal Government to ...

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Free visits to the doctor reach a record high, new Medicare statistics show

20 August 2017 - The number of Australian patients are seeing their doctor without paying a cent for it after ...

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Costs eat into private health incentives

14 August 2017 - The financial incentive to take out private health insurance is fast diminishing for tens of thousands ...

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Private health insurance: tactics to lure young people ineffective, Senate told

11 August 2017 - Under-30s need to be shown the cover is relevant to them and worth their while in terms ...

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Health insurance comparison sites don’t address affordability: ombudsman

9 August 2017 - Comparison tools will not address the rising affordability concerns with health insurance, the commonwealth ombudsman has ...

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Health insurance demands robust rethink to restore value for consumers

7 August 2017 - Widespread and growing community frustration with the cost and inadequacies of private health insurance oblige the ...

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