A combination of doctors’ frustration, an available site and a developer looking to expand led to the building of a $100 million hospital. But some doctors fear it gives insurers too much control.
Centuria Capital joint chief executive Jason Huljich, Adeney Private Hospital chief executive Louise O’Connor and Centuria Capital head of development Andre Bali at the recently completed Melbourne hospital - only the third in Australia to be owned by a health fund. Eamon Gallagher
There are just 11 seats in the small reception area of Adeney Private Hospital. That’s the same number of treatment chairs on the top-level, third-floor medical infusion ward, where patients undergoing chemotherapy can gaze over the rooftops of Melbourne’s leafy suburb of Kew to the CBD.
Space is valued, and so is cost management in the new facility, which bills itself as Australia’s first purpose-built gap-payment-free private hospital, meaning surgery patients pay nothing extra for surgeon, anaesthetist and radiology fees or expenses such as prescribed PBS medicines.
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