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Ramsay Health Care Limited

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Change in substantial holding

Change in substantial holding

  • Feb 5, 2025
  • 108 pages

Market Sensitive

Leadership Changes and Strategic Realignment

Company Administration - Other

  • Jan 31, 2025
  • 2 pages

Notification regarding unquoted securities - RHC

Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)

  • Jan 7, 2025
  • 6 pages

Notification of cessation of securities - RHC

Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)

  • Jan 7, 2025
  • 4 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 17, 2024
  • 3 pages

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January

Chook.

10 CEOs under the pump in 2025

Overextended stockmarket valuations equal heightened investor expectations. The market has these 10 chief executives in its sights. 

  • James Thomson
Health insurers are under growing pressure to help private hospitals resolve their financial challenges. The Health Department has proposed expanding maternity cover to lower tier policyholders.

Health insurers baulk at Labor pitch to expand maternity cover

Changes floated by the Health Department include forcing funds to pay more for hospital-in-the-home programs to take pressure off private hospitals.

  • Michael Smith
Investors are already sifting through the market’s trash of 2024 to find treasure.

‘Don’t be a hero’: why investors should stick to buying winners

MST has urged clients to resist snapping up last year’s worst performing ASX stocks as value seekers sift through the rubble in the hope of finding a comeback kid.

  • Alex Gluyas

December 2024

The AMA warns insurance companies have too much say over at-home treatment.

Doctors say health insurers have too much control over home care

The AMA is warning that Australia is at risk of adopting “US-style managed care” where insurance companies call all the shots.

  • Michael Smith
Mark Butler has a difficult decision to make.

Mark Butler’s health problem with no fix

The health minister is in the middle of an almighty fight between private hospitals and the health insurers, and he’s facing a difficult decision in the lead up to the election.

  • Michael Smith
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Calvary Health Care chief executive Martin Bowles does not support the private hospital association’s demand for emergency funding.

Private hospitals split over industry’s demand for emergency funding

Two not-for-profit groups say they are opposed to calls from bigger players like Ramsay Health Care for more money, or the introduction of $200 visit fees.

  • Michael Smith
Nurses at the John Fawkner Hospital in Melbourne. The hospital is owned by Healthscope, which tore up its contract with several big insurers.

Private hospitals want $200 per visit fee to head off funding crisis

Operators of major private health facilities say it is their only option if they aren’t handed $1.3 billion in emergency funding by the federal government

  • Michael Smith
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says insurers will return $140 million to the public health system by paying higher room rates.

Insurers warn of premium hikes after losing NSW bed rate battle

Private health insurers have caved to pressure from the Minns government to pay higher hospital bed rates following a protracted campaign.

  • Michael Smith

November 2024

David Thodey.

Ramsay’s riddle the high point of AGM season mixed messages

What we saw at the private hospital giant’s annual meeting on Tuesday doesn’t make sense. Good luck to the new CEO.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Ramsay Health Care chairman David Thodey at the hospital operator’s annual general meeting in Sydney on Tuesday.

Ramsay resists investor pressure to dump international hospitals

The private hospital giant’s chairman David Thodey says he cannot rule out offshore asset sales, but shareholders want more certainty.

  • Michael Smith
Ramsay Health Care runs the country’s biggest network of private hospitals.

Ramsay investors push for shake-up of ‘failed’ overseas expansion

The country’s largest private hospital operator is facing demands from shareholders to discard international operations and focus on its local facilities.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Amelia Gasparotto

‘They can afford to pay’: Strike to hit private hospital giant

Nurses and midwives at Ramsay Health Care will strike at 17 hospitals in NSW for 24 hours on Tuesday demanding a 20 per cent pay increase.

  • David Marin-Guzman

Health insurers warn of closures without 6pc premium hike

Health funds have asked Labor to allow big premium rises as the amount they charge policyholders is not keeping pace with healthcare inflation.

  • Michael Smith
Nurses at private hospitals are pushing for similar pay rises as public sector workers.

First private nurses strikes, as ‘Pied Piper’ effect hits

The first strikes by medical staff at private hospitals follow mass walkouts at public medical centres by nurses as wages pressure bleeds from one sector to another.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says private hospitals must sort out their own mess.

Private hospitals warn of more closures after Labor refuses bailout

Health Minister Mark Butler has told struggling private hospital operators to sort out their own problems and resolve differences with insurers.

  • Michael Smith
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October 2024

Private health insurers are split on how to respond to NSW government pressure to pay higher bed rates.

Insurer HCF bows to NSW pressure on hospital bed rates

Insurers say they are being held hostage by the NSW government which is threatening to hike taxes if they do not pay more to use public hospital beds.

  • Michael Smith
Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says he will consider cost of living pressures when insurers ask for premium hikes.

Labor hints it will not back steep rise in health insurance premiums

Health Minister Mark Butler says insurers seeking premium increases may be asked to “sharpen their pencils” as cost-of-living pressures bite.

  • Michael Smith
Sue Corbet’s statement on mental health: Crouching, Thinking, Launching.

The mental health crisis gripping Australia’s private hospitals

Some health insurers say stand-alone mental health hospitals are unlikely to exist in 10 years’ time given the challenges they face.

  • Jemima Whyte and Michael Smith
Ramsay Healthcare Australia CEO Carmel Monaghan is not ruling out more fights with insurers over funding disputes.

Ramsay calls for insurance shake-up as hospital bailout hopes sink

Ramsay Health Care says it is not expecting the federal government to bail out loss-making hospitals.

  • Michael Smith
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Hospitals says insurance premium hikes will not fix funding crisis

Private hospital operators also call for changes to the way in which the funding insurers contribute to the healthcare system is calculated.

  • Michael Smith

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