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Laws introduced to 'guarantee' Medicare
1 June 2017 - The Turnbull government insists a new multi-billion dollar fund will guarantee the future of Medicare, amid ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2017
$55,000 spent but hospital funding reform ‘will never be policy’
30 May 2017 - A proposal to pay hospitals in a similar way to Medicare’s funding of GPs has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2017
ACCC takes health fund NIB to court over concealing changes to its MediGap Scheme
30 May 2017 - The consumer watchdog has taken health fund NIB to court, accusing it of concealing changes to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2017
Why you could have to pay $1 more for medicine
13 May 2017 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has changed his script - and the change is about to hit ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2017
Another small victory for Australian Government in its pursuit of damages for PBS over-payments during interlocutory injunction period
4 May 2017 - The Australian Government has had another small victory in the most recent interlocutory decision in the clopidogrel ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 May 2017
‘Basic Bronze’ proposal to cut health insurance premiums
1 May 2017 - Health funds would be compelled to offer a standard, low-cost insurance policy under a proposal being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Apr 2017
The multi-billion-dollar subsidy for private health insurance isn’t worth it
27 April 2017 - Almost 20 years after the 30% subsidy for private health insurance was introduced, premiums continue to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2017
Brenzys lists on the Australian PBS and Pfizer denied discovery of documents to establish grounds for patent infringement
4 April 2017 - As of 1 April 2017, Samsung Bioepis' Brenzys, a biosimilar to Pfizer's Enbrel (etanercept), will join ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2017
$30m damages for infringement of Bayer’s Australian Yasmin patent - a “small” jurisdiction with big benefits
29 March 2017 - In a recent landmark Australian Federal Court decision, Bayer v Generic Health FCA 250, Bayer was awarded ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2017
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Act 2017
29 March 2017 - The National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2016 was passed in the House of Representatives on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Federal Court of Australia dismisses preliminary discovery application regarding biosimilar suspected of infringing manufacturing process patents
26 March 2017 - In the recent decision of Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals v Samsung Bioepis, Justice Stephen Burley of the Federal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Mar 2017
Medibank skips health insurance grilling
15 March 2017 - Medibank won't join other health funds to explain soaring private health insurance premiums at a parliamentary ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2017
Medibank Private 'highhanded', 'cynical' in misleading consumers: ACCC
14 March 2017 - Australia's largest health insurer Medibank has been accused of "cynical" and "high-handed" conduct that misled and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Mar 2017
Battle over hips and the hip pocket as prostheses costs fight heats up
12 March 2017 - Australia's medical technology bodies are gearing up for battle as the cost of replacement hips, knees ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Mar 2017
Industry group versus California newcomer in medical technology price row
9 March 2017 - The industry lobby group representing medical device manufacturers has rejected claims by a US manufacturer that ...