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Health fund premiums to be reined in under sweeping Turnbull government changes
12 October 2017 - Private health insurers will be able to charge higher excesses and offer discounts to under-30s under ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2017
Private patients foot the bill for health insurance rebate cuts
9 October 2017 - Labor’s changes to the health insurance rebate meant federal government spending on the subsidy dropped for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2017
Confirmed 1 October 2017 prices - 2017 October cycle
14 September 2017 - Confirmed 1 October 2017 prices resulting from the 2017 October cycle of price disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2017
Health insurers demand reforms to keep premium increases low
11September 2017 - Australia’s health insurance industry has warned Health Minister Greg Hunt that if he wants consumers to have ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2017
’It’s about private healthcare, not just health insurance’
11 September 2017 - An edited transcript of a private health care insurance roundtable hosted by The Australian senior business ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2017
Private health insurance: tactics to lure young people ineffective, Senate told
11 August 2017 - Under-30s need to be shown the cover is relevant to them and worth their while in terms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2017
Medibank calls for patient consent, fee disclosure
7 August 2017 - Medibank is calling on the Turnbull government to increase transparency in the health care system and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2017
Public scrutiny mooted for private hospitals
7 August 2017 - Private hospitals are set to come under the same scrutiny as public hospitals, and be required ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2017
Call to strip government subsidies from 'junk' health insurance
4 August 2017 - Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has called on the federal government to stop providing tax breaks and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2017
NIB’s Mark Fitzgibbon calls for ‘single payer’ in healthcare
3 August 2017 - Health insurer NIB has called on the Turnbull government to trial a “single payer” model for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2017
Review fundamentally flawed
2 August 2017 - The Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review (the King Review) has been hijacked by a combination of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2017
Bupa’s call to scrap approval process for health cover premiums
29 July 2017 - Health insurance giant Bupa has called on the government to remove the need for ministerial approval ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2017
Private health insurance fix hurdle
19 July 2017 - The reform committee set up by the Turnbull government to fix private health insurance has found ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2017
Indicative 1 October 2017 prices - 2017 October cycle
13 July 2017 - Indicative 1 October 2017 prices resulting from the 2017 October cycle of price disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jul 2017
Pharmacy review - an update from the Chair
12 July 2017 - The Chair of the Review Panel, Professor Stephen King, is pleased to release four additional reports ...