21 June 2024 - The health insurance industry is facing the growing prospect of unprecedented government intervention in its contracting with hospitals, as doctors complain patients are being denied surgery or inpatient care even if they have top cover, with hundreds of private facilities around the nation on the brink of bankruptcy.

As concern grows over the shaky viability of the private health system, the nation’s top surgical college has revealed that some privately insured patients are being left in pain and uncertainty as specialists’ theatre lists are cancelled or hospitals abandon completely certain surgeries deemed too unprofitable.

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