How to navigate specialist fees in the private health system

ABC News

26 November 2019 - Have you ever taken up private health insurance, only to end up hundreds or thousands of dollars out of pocket for your treatment?

"Excessive" private hospital costs and "egregious" specialist bills are key factors contributing to the "death spiral" gripping Australia's health insurance industry, according to a new report from the Grattan Institute.

On Tuesday, the public policy think tank called on private hospitals to hold "greedy" doctors to account to save private health care — a sector it recently declared had become increasingly unfair and costly.

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