APRA’s latest private health insurance risk equalisation statistics detail the net risk equalisation result for each insurer and the gross deficit by state and territory for the year ending June 30, ...

Australians are drawing on private hospital care from birth through older age, with new analysis from Private Healthcare Australia (PHA) showing that insured patients use their cover for neonatal ...

Nick Stone, the insurer’s local chief executive, says Australia should aim to have half the population covered by a policy by ...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released its private health insurance risk equalisation statistics publication for the ...

With insurance costs rising sharply, you might be wondering which policies you can afford to lose, and which ones you should ...

Millions of Australian households, already grappling with interest rate hikes, have two more growing bills their budgets will ...

Health insurance premium rises have begun, after the federal government in February approved an average industry-wide ...

Consumer Sentiment Tracker shows cover is already a major source of recurring payment strain. Australian households are ...

Queenslanders are being forced to choose between paying the mortgage and seeing a doctor, with some homeowners delaying ...

Without big changes, escalating costs will leave the nation with a fracturing system unable to withstand inevitable demographic pressures of an ageing population.

One in two Australians missed out on health care they needed last year mainly because they could not afford it, according to ...