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Health insurers ‘sit on pot of gold’, say private hospitals
21 May 2021 - Private hospitals say health insurers must promise to reduce premium hikes or pay cash back to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2021
MSAC publishes agenda for upcoming ESC meeting
14 May 2021 - The MSAC Secretariat has published a list of the applications scheduled to be considered at the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 May 2021
MTAA optimistic as Government rejects insurer led push to abolish Prosthesis List
11 May 2021 - The Medical Technology Association of Australia has welcomed the Government’s decision to retain the Prostheses List ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2021
Proposal leaves surgeons bound by private health
23 February 2021 - Australians paying thousands of dollars a year in health insurance could have their access to life-changing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Feb 2021
Medtech firms, health funds clash over pricing shake-up
11 February 2021 - Medtech firms warn Australian patients may miss out on new innovations due to an overhaul of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2020
Health insurers call for prostheses tender
2 March 2020 - Health insurers are calling for the Morrison government to step away from pricing replacement hips, knees ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2020
Medical device price savings for millions of Australians from today
1 February 2020 - The price of thousands of medical technologies treating heart and lung disease, diabetes, bone cancer, eye ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2019
Medical devices pushing private health expenses
19 November 2019 - Reforms to the cost of medical devices have failed to deliver a promised $250m in savings ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2019
Health funds pressure Canberra over $700 million medical devices 'failure'
14 November 2019 - Australia's health insurers are putting pressure on the federal government to overhaul how much they pay ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2019
Private health insurers say cost of medical devices putting pressure on premiums
23 October 2019 - After the lowest annual increases in 18 years, relief appears to have been short-lived. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2019
Greg Hunt's medical deals come back to bite him
11 September 2019 - Health minister Greg Hunt’s efforts to rein in growth in private health insurance premiums looks like ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
Aust stent costs five times higher than NZ
23 August 2019 -FactCheck Investigation: Do heart stents cost Australian private health funds five times more than they cost in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
'Remove rugs from aged care' to reduce health insurance costs, report says
22 August 2019 - The medical devices industry is pushing back against further reforms to lower the cost of hip ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Sep 2018
Half of all health fund members to lose cover for hip and knee replacements
6 September 2018 - Half of all health fund members will have to pay higher premiums and switch to top ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jul 2018
Secret pacemaker payments boosting private hospital coffers but costing the health system
3 July 2018 - When Nola Droop suffered a bout of breathlessness in 2016, she had no idea it meant ...