Posts Tagged ‘PHIAC’

PHA Welcomes Prostheses Changes

22 May 2012

Private Healthcare Australia supports the recent Budget announcement to remove hips and joints with unacceptably high revision rates from the Prostheses List.… Read more

Risk Equalisation and Community Rating

10 April 2012

The purpose of risk equalisation is to support the community rating principal. Insurers are not allowed to risk rate premiums and risk equalisation partially compensates insurers with a riskier demographic profile by re-distributing money from … Read more

Over 11 million people have access to better quality healthcare

5 December 2011

Australia’s Health Funds are helping over 11 million Australians access better quality healthcare.

The latest figures released by PHIAC for the September 2011 Quarterly Statistics indicate that Australians value their private health insurance as more … Read more

Private Health Insurance System is Working

17 August 2011

PHIAC has just released its quarterly report for June 2011 and private health insurance membership is at a ten year high. The growth in the Private Health Insurance sector should send a signal to Government … Read more