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FY25 Half Year - Key Dates

Notification of Results/Reporting Date, Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Web Casts

  • Dec 18, 2024
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Change of Director's Interest - David Koczkar

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 4 pages

Notification regarding unquoted securities - MPL

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

  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 7 pages

Change of Director's Interest - David Koczkar

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Nov 27, 2024
  • 4 pages

Amended Constitution

Constitution

  • Nov 13, 2024
  • 55 pages

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This Month

Young Rich Lister Tash Oakley: “I understand exactly how to pose in front of the camera.”

The 10 most memorable Lunches with the AFR of 2024

From Young Rich Listers to BlackRock’s chief strategist and Donald Trump’s former daily intelligence briefer. These were the 10 most read Lunches with the AFR in 2024.

  • Staff writers
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
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
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

Rachel David Private Healthcare Australia CEO at The Charles Restaurant, Sydney CBD.

The woman defending the industry everyone loves to hate

Private health insurers are being derided all around, but their chief lobbyist, Rachel David, insists they make our medical system the envy of the Americans and British.

  • Michael Smith
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Government Services Minister Bill Shorten is working on trusted digital identities to stop scams and data breaches.

Verifiable credentials: Shorten’s ID push to stop scams

One of the nation’s biggest banks will help test the roll-out of trusted digital identities to stop scams and prevent data breaches of personal information.

  • Andrew Tillett
Shareholders have approved NIB Health Insurance CEO Mark Fitzgibbon’s pay increase, but hospitals want a bigger share of insurers’ profits.

Health insurer salaries in the spotlight as premiums climb

The salaries of Australia’s big health insurance bosses are rising with their profits.

  • Michael Smith
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

October

Private hospitals says they are under considerable financial pain, as they pay for higher wages and bigger medical expenses.

Healthscope to slug Bupa members $100 extra for hospital stays

Six million Australian health fund members will be forced to pay higher charges to use the services of the country’s second-largest private hospital group.

  • Michael Smith
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
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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
NIB Holdings chief executive Mark Fitzgibbon is facing more competition as customers tighten their belts.

Health insurers have landed in a world of pain, political or otherwise

They’re under fire from parliamentarians and hospitals for making too much profit, and yet are caught in a customer land grab that is shaving away profits.

  • Michael Smith

September

ASIC is investigating how boards and directors have responded to cyberattacks following warnings from ASIC chairman Joe Longo.

ASIC pursues board directors over cyber breaches 

ASIC says more investigations are underway, scrutinising how boards and directors have responded to cyberattacks.

  • Tess Bennett
Private Healthcare Australia chief executive Rachel David says Healthscope’s ad campaign against insurers has been a failure.

Insurers deny caving in to Healthscope demands

“Out-of-contract payments have not occurred in response to Brookfield and Healthscope’s heavy-handed US-style campaign,” says lobby group.

  • Michael Smith
Private hospitals have been pushing for insurers to pick up more of the funding. Healthscope has succeeded in striking a deal with three major insurers.

Healthscope forces big insurers to cough up to repair its profits

Medibank Private, NIB and HCF have agreed to out-of-cycle funding payments in the “tens of millions of dollars” for the Brookfield-owned hospital group.

  • Michael Smith
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Bank shares keep charging, particularly CBA’s. But fund managers are betting more on industrial companies.

ASX investors are stuck between a rock, CBA at $143, and a hard place

CBA shares above $140 and China’s wobbles have sent investors heading towards the ASX’s third bucket: industrials. That puts their management teams under pressure.

  • Anthony Macdonald

August

Federal health minister Mark Butler is reviewing the financial health of private hospitals, testing operators’ claims of being dudded by insurers.

Health insurance shouldn’t be private hospitals’ field of dreams

Instead of protecting private hospitals from predatory insurers, an obsolete contract framework protects operators from full accountability for inefficiencies and misjudgments.

  • Terry Barnes
Medibank CEO David Koczkar says industry growth will moderate this year.

Private health cover could become unaffordable, Medibank warns

The insurer says foreign student policyholders have surged, but fewer permanent Australian residents signed up for private health insurance than expected.

  • Michael Smith
Doctors are also having a go with their call for health funds to return more to members, even though consumers already receive 86 cents for every premium dollar – the highest of all insurance types.

Five reasons health funds shouldn’t bail out private hospitals

The short-sighted arguments of vested interests would increase the cost of insurance for Australians contributing to their own healthcare.

  • Rachel David
Health Minister Mark Butler faces the thorny issue of approving insurance premium rises ahead of an election.

Pressure for health premium overhaul in election headache for Albanese

The influential medical lobby is demanding an independent umpire to determine how high insurance premiums can rise as negotiations over the next increase begin.

  • Michael Smith

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