Private insurance caters to a broad list of hospital, ambulance, and extras and allows customers to access private health institutions. Keep in mind that a public hospital caters to everyone.

We’ve compiled our pick of the best private health insurance companies based on research by our life and health insurance partner LifeSearch (March 2025). We considered two scenarios, one for a ...

We found that increasing the average private health insurance take-up from 44% to 45% in Victoria would reduce waiting times in public hospitals by an average 0.34 days (or about eight hours).

Private health insurers may soon be able to offer rebates for seven complementary therapies previously prohibited. This includes some movement therapies – Pilates, yoga, tai chi and Alexander ...

Large health insurance companies vowed to cut down the use of and improve a common tool to vet requests before letting doctors bill for medical services or prescriptions. UnitedHealthcare, Blue ...

Duke Health is suggesting it could soon drop Aetna from its list of in-network providers, saying the insurance company is ...