Vertical integration is likely to reduce patient choice, restrict doctors’ referrals and prescriptions, and increase costs in the long term, critics say.

A recent investigation by CHOICE reported that some private health insurance premiums will rise by as much as 25% in April.

Private health insurers are moving deeper into Australia’s general practitioner (GP) sector, buying up clinics across the country and reshaping how primary care is delivered, according to Medscape ...

Some Australians with private health insurance will face premium increases of as much as 25 per cent from next month, according to new analysis from CHOICE.

Australia’s second-largest private health insurer, Bupa, has recently started offering its members three free GP telehealth consultations a year. This follows other insurers such as nib offering its ...

Premiums are rising far faster than official increases, coverage is narrowing and hospitals are under strain – Australia’s private health model is failing.

The rising cost of Gold health insurance policies highlights the deeper challenges Australia's health system is facing as the population ages and the ...

Around 15 million Australians with private health insurance will pay more from April 1, after the federal government approved a 4.41% average premium increase, the largest in nine years. For a typical ...

Private health insurance customers are set to fork out more on their policies after the latest premium increase was locked in. Health Minister Mark Butler said premiums would rise by 4.41 per cent ...

Yuting Zhang has received funding from the Australian Research Council (future fellowship project ID FT200100630), Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Victorian Department of Health, and National ...