February
Ramsay says Labor’s premium hike will not cover soaring hospital costs
Still, shares in the country’s largest private hospital operator rose sharply after it appointed Goldman Sachs to assess the sale of its European business.
Ramsay’s global CFO search for a hospital pass job
Does the healthcare outfit really think someone will move to Australia to manage the colossal mess that is our private hospital market?
Healthscope to close maternity wards in Darwin and Hobart
The Coalition has seized on the shutdowns to accuse Labor of failing to take action to stop the closure of critical health service
David Di Pilla thinks a new PE owner could save Healthscope
Property is at the heart of the veteran deal maker’s plans for the private hospitals operator – just as it was at Masters almost a decade ago.
Is Ramsay Health Care whipping itself into a frenzy?
The private hospital lobby is turning on itself and Labor is making mileage from it.
Advent eyes quick radiology flip with PEP on the scene
PEP is understood to me in talks to buy Advent Partners’s Imaging Associates with Sayers Group on the scene to advise.
Amid global chaos, we are still the lucky country. Here’s why
Australians should step back and recognise the strength of the institutions that underpin our world-beating prosperity, writes Andrew Low.
January
Top doctors tip into AI medtech capital raising
The raise was led by Chris O’Brien Lifehouse chief executive and oncologist Michael Boyer and leading orthopedic surgeon Michael Solomon.
December 2024
Only one thing can end the $22b private health war
Brookfield’s latest fund injection into Healthscope is more evidence of the need for the government to step in to try to resolve a desperate and messy issue.
Bupa offers Healthscope doctors payments to switch hospitals
The health insurer giant is offering Healthscope doctors up to $500 per patient if they move to another hospital.
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.
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.
Why Branson’s ex right-hand man is investing in workplace health
David Baxby has invested in just about everything from airlines to gyms. Now for the first time, he is putting his money into healthcare.
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
Independent hospital pricing an opportunity for genuine health reform
The reality is private hospitals need fairer agreements with health funds. Providers, insurers, and government need to start a conversation.
Treating health funds like cash cows will be a disaster for our health system
If we want a sustainable private system, the next federal government must focus on reforms that put consumers before vested interests, to keep health insurance affordable.
November 2024
A one-woman firm becomes a $29m national recruiter
Kay Reynoldson says loyalty underpins healthy growth for this nursing recruiter where revenues have tripled.
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.
Hospitals to pressure Labor to link nurse pay hikes with premiums
Operators including Brookfield-owned Healthscope and ASX-listed Ramsay Health Care want the radical change and say facilities will close if they are not funded.
Patients deserve better than jingoistic private health war
Hospital operators and health insurers love ramping up the rhetoric. But the long-term problems of health policy in this country aren’t getting fixed.