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Notification of Results/Reporting Date

Notification of Results/Reporting Date, Web Casts

  • Jan 28, 2025
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Ceasing to be a substantial holder from MUFG

Ceasing to be a substantial holder

  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 58 pages

Ceasing to be a substantial holder

Ceasing to be a substantial holder

  • Dec 17, 2024
  • 3 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 12, 2024
  • 5 pages

Notification regarding unquoted securities - NHF

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

  • Dec 11, 2024
  • 7 pages

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This Month

The AMA analysis showed rebates varied depending on the procedure, the arrangements insurers had with doctors and surgeons, and the premiums they paid for their cover.

Gap in insurer refunds ‘shows need for health fund reform’

Doctors want an independent private health system authority to oversee conflicts between insurers and hospital groups over funding.

  • Michael Smith

January

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

December 2024

Health Minister Mark Butler says health insurers are exploiting a loophole to increase premiums.

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
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

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
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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
NIB Health Insurance CEO Mark Fitzgibbon retires at the end of the month.

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.

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  • Michael Smith
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 2024

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 2024

Eucalyptus chief executive Tim Doyle says demand for weight loss drugs is entering a new phase.

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
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
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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

August 2024

Geoff Wilson is in the same boat as everyone else at the end of this exhausting profit season – trying to pinpoint exactly where we are in this cycle.

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. 

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  • James Thomson
NIB Health Insurance CEO Mark Fitzgibbon says fixing prices for hospital procedures would be “crazy” .

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
NIB Holdings CEO Mark Fitzgibbon

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
NIB Holdings CEO Mark Fitzgibbon has sympathy for private hospital operators.

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

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