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- Dec 11, 2024
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December 2024
Health insurers tricking members with secret premium rises: Labor
Health Minister Mark Butler says insurers are exploiting a loophole that allows them to charge hundreds more by replacing products with more expensive new ones.
- Michael Smith
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
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
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
Health insurer NIB warns profit to fall up to 10pc as NZ claims soar
The company’s admission comes a day before submissions are due to the federal government about premium increases for the coming year.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
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
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 2024
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
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
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
- Opinion
- Health insurance
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 2024
Ozempic alternatives flood the Australian market
The number of Australians taking weight-loss drugs is growing as new medicines hit the market. MPs warn the influx must be managed carefully.
- Michael Smith
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
- Exclusive
- Health insurance
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
August 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What I learnt from 30 CEOs in 30 days
The profit season has delivered a confusing picture of an economy stuck between cycles. Here are 30 nuggets to help investors navigate this tricky environment.
- Updated
- James Thomson
NIB says plan to fix hospital pricing ‘crazy’ as funding tensions grow
Insurers and hospitals are split on how to fix their acrimonious pricing negotiations as government reviews private health.
- Michael Smith
- Results Wrap
- Chanticleer
Why NIB caught a post-COVID cold
The private health insurer feels the heat on margins, Bendigo & Adelaide Bank gets a grilling on costs and Dan Murphy’s owner Endeavour finds some wins from AI.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why we’ll all end up taking Ozempic
Retiring NIB chief Mark Fitzgibbon on the two biggest issues facing the private health sector: the brawl between hospitals and insurers, and the future of care.
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Fixed price operations could be coming to private hospitals
Tensions between hospitals and health insurers are heating up as the federal government completes its inquiry into the struggling sector.
- Michael Smith
St Vincent’s and NIB back from the brink with new deal
Hospital group St Vincent’s has secured a new funding deal with NIB which it says will avoid thousands of patients paying higher costs.
- Michael Smith