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Privately insured patients get VIP treatment in public hospitals
26 August 2019 - Public hospital admission is meant to be based on need. But it turns out private patients are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2019
Private health insurance woes escalate as premiums, out-of-pocket costs rise
20 August 2019 - The Morrison government is facing an escalating affordability crisis in private health insurance, as premiums continue ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2019
Why using your health cover in a public hospital is adding $100 to your health fund premiums
7 August 2019 - Public hospitals are gouging health fund members of more than $1.6 billion a year by bullying them ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2019
Patients push for transplant medications to be free in Australia
2 August 2019 - A woman who received a life-saving heart transplant now has to spent $250 on medication each month ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jul 2019
Informed Financial Consent guide – launched
23 July 2019 - The Australian Government and the AMA have launched a new guide that will better aid Australians making ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Health insurance rebate still a pain in the budget
18 July 2019 - The private health insurance sector wants increased rebates to stop the recent decline in membership. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Private health insurance worthy of support
17 July 2019 - While there are many who have strong ideological objections to the use of taxpayers' money to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jul 2019
Irish cystic fibrosis family face €12,400 bill after deportation victory in Australia
15 July 2019 - An Irish family threatened with deportation from Australia because their son has cystic fibrosis have been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2019
Changes to wholesale mark-up arrangements for PBS Section 85 medicines dispensed in public and private hospitals to come into effect on 1 October 2019
2 July 2019 - The National Health Amendment (Budget Measure) Determination 2019 and the National Health (Commonwealth Price – Pharmaceutical Benefits ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jun 2019
Publication of Stage 1 PBS process improvements – cost recovery administrative guidelines and forms
24 June 2019 - The Department of Health and Medicines Australia have been working since late 2017 to deliver on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2019
Why the Coalition must adopt Labor’s cancer plans
19 June 2019 - As cancer doctors, we know the hardest words we can say to our patients are “you ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2019
Surgery is a very costly business
19 June 2019 - Recent criticism levelled at brain surgeon Charlie Teo about his fees for an operation has generated ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jun 2019
Celebrity brain surgeon faces threat of disciplinary action
12 June 2019 - Brain surgeon Charlie Teo’s dramatic claim he may be forced out of medicine comes as he ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2019
Specialists must also think of patients' financial health
12 June 2019 - When confronted with a post of someone crowd-funding a life saving operation for a sick child ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2019
More than 60,000 back petition calling for Dr Charlie Teo to operate in public hospitals
11 June 2019 - A petition calling for Dr Charlie Teo to be allowed to operate in public hospitals has already ...