The release of the Private Hospital Sector Financial Health Check is an underwhelming response to the viability challenges facing hospitals.

Will Healthscope's dangerous gamble pay off or could it backfire as they start to charge members a fee against the contract rules.

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There is little doubt that the private healthcare system has been under strain for many years now. From the pre-COVID days of health...

Australia's Dirty Truth - Non-Universal Healthcare explores the growing risk of Australians forgoing access to necessary healthcare.

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of being invited to speak at the Deformity Down Under conference. Sharing the stage with Carmel...

The announcement of Ed Close as the incoming CEO of nib was not well received by the market initially. Ultimately, industry analysts will...

The past seven days have seen the announced retirement of two giants of the health care industry. Yesterday Ramsay Healthcare announced...

Is now the right time for an Australian Private Hospital Buying Group?

Small hospital operators in Australia should be concerned over how big termination events resulting in worse long term outcomes for them.

Things have been relatively quiet since St Vincent's issued its termination notice last Friday with nib Health Funds. This is probably a...

St Vincents Hospital's have started a dangerous game of chicken with nib. Their ability to win this battle could make or break them.

Understand more about how the Rebate Adjustment Factor is hurting middle income earners in Australia.