Australia’s universal healthcare system ... loading is designed to encourage younger people to take up—and maintain— private health cover. Under the scheme, young Australians have until ...

following calls for Australians to downgrade their private health insurance cover amid the coronavirus pandemic. The industry’s peak body, Private Healthcare Australia, says CHOICE’s recommendation to ...

Bupa, one of Australia’s biggest health funds, said on Friday it ... Just under half of the 12 million Australians with private hospital cover are members of Bupa, and 29 not-for-profit funds ...

Private health insurers in Australia are facing a period of uncertainty as rising healthcare costs, shifting demographics, ...

A new research in Australia has revealed that 24% of Australians risk 'junk cover' by choosing hospital insurance for tax savings over healthcare. The study found that nearly one in four Australians ...

Australians are being urged to prepare for one of the largest increases in health insurance premiums in recent years, with ...

Private Healthcare Australia's Ben Harris said funds could ... A record 55 per cent of the population now has some form of private health insurance cover, according to the most recent figures ...

which cover more than two million Australians. The government last year asked for commercial data from the private hospital sector as part of a “financial health check”, with the findings ...

Goldman Sachs analyst Julian Braganza maintained a Hold rating on Medibank Private Ltd. (MDBPF – Research Report) today and set a price target ...

Medibank – 53% (New South Wales NIB (Qantas) – 48% (New South Wales) Bupa – 43% (New South Wales) HCF – 47% (New South Wales) HBF – up to 69% (Western Australia ... health insurance. Australian ...

Indemnity-based covers pay for hospitalisation expenses. “Now, insurers have also designed hospitalisation covers for people who have been diagnosed with cancer,” says Siddharth Singhal, head of ...