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Pharma lobby mounts last-ditch effort to fix prescription 'doughnut hole'
20 September 2018 - The pharmaceutical lobby is mounting a last-ditch effort to add a measure to an opioid abuse ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Sep 2018
Health insurance funds to help government sell premium hikes
6 September 2018 - Health funds will provide an unprecedented level of detail with their applications to raise premiums next ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Sep 2018
Australian millennials are sick of paying for baby boomers' health care
5 September 2018 - Young people are quitting private health insurance in droves. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Sep 2018
Patient charges for PBS prescriptions: example calculations
4 September 2018 - Example calculations of patient charges for PBS prescriptions are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2018
Patients being bled by specialists as out-of-pocket costs surge
30 August 2018 - Health insurance giant Medibank has warned that one in eight of its customers is being forced ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2018
Life-changing drug Spinraza for spinal muscular atrophy patients costing adults at least $500,000
29 August 2018 - In a small lounge in Essendon, with his parents by his side, Chris Kessaris sat in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2018
She paid $3.47 for a prescription drug. The retail price was 10,000% higher.
28n August 2018 - Stephanie Garman picked up some prescription meds from CVS the other day. Normally she doesn’t give ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Bupa blunder: health insurer pays price for restricting hospital options
27 August 2018 - The biggest health insurer in Australia, Bupa, has admitted the controversial changes it made to paying ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2018
High and random medical gap costs revealed
16 August 2018 - The random scale and nature of out of pocket fees charged by medical specialists revealed in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2018
When insurance wouldn't pay, parents funded cancer patient's $95,000 life saving treatment
15 August 2018 - Kate Weissman sits at the edge of the patient table. Her oncologist goes over her medical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2018
The $30 billion in health costs eating a hole in your pocket
15 August 2018 - Australians are spending nearly $30 billion on out of pocket health expenses a year, according to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Melbourne man spends $80,000 on the miracle cancer drug that saved his life
13 August 2018 - Diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in 2017, John Burke should, in his words, be “gone ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2018
ACT cancer patients have been slugged with an unfair fee. Until now.
3 July 2018 - The ACT Government has promised to scrap the chemotherapy co-payment ACT cancer patients are "unfairly" slugged ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2018
Drug makers try evasion, tougher negotiations to fight new U.S. insurer tactic
5 July 2018 - In the escalating battle over U.S. prescription drug prices, major pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to limit the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2018
Cure prospects for out of pocket pain
29 May 2018 - The Consumers Health Forum welcomes the consensus now developing on measures needed to resolve the issue ...