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Public scrutiny mooted for private hospitals
7 August 2017 - Private hospitals are set to come under the same scrutiny as public hospitals, and be required ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2017
Call to strip government subsidies from 'junk' health insurance
4 August 2017 - Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has called on the federal government to stop providing tax breaks and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2017
NIB’s Mark Fitzgibbon calls for ‘single payer’ in healthcare
3 August 2017 - Health insurer NIB has called on the Turnbull government to trial a “single payer” model for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2017
Review fundamentally flawed
2 August 2017 - The Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review (the King Review) has been hijacked by a combination of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2017
Bupa’s call to scrap approval process for health cover premiums
29 July 2017 - Health insurance giant Bupa has called on the government to remove the need for ministerial approval ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2017
Private health insurance fix hurdle
19 July 2017 - The reform committee set up by the Turnbull government to fix private health insurance has found ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2017
Indicative 1 October 2017 prices - 2017 October cycle
13 July 2017 - Indicative 1 October 2017 prices resulting from the 2017 October cycle of price disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jul 2017
Pharmacy review - an update from the Chair
12 July 2017 - The Chair of the Review Panel, Professor Stephen King, is pleased to release four additional reports ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2017
Serious concerns over true intentions of review
5 July 2017 - Nearly two weeks on from the release of the Interim Report of the Pharmacy Remuneration and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2017
Shrouded in secrecy: the Pharmacy Guild resists deeper scrutiny
28 June 2017 - For many years, pharmacies have held a favoured place in Australia. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2017
Guild caned on pharmacy review ban
27 June 2017 - The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has been criticised over attempts to boycott an independent review of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2017
Interim report ‘a step backwards’
27 June 2017 - Peak bodies have come together to highlight potential problems with King Review suggestions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jun 2017
‘Overcharging’ claims give false impression
26 June 2017 - Guild condemns PBS price fixing suggestion as article accuses pharmacies of overcharging. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jun 2017
Has the interim report considered long term supply chain impacts?
23 June 2017 - Medicines Australia welcomes the release of the Interim Report of Pharmacy Review but has concerns about ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jun 2017
Chemists have been overcharging customers for medicines a government review finds
24 June 2017 - The price of the same PBS medicine can vary by up to 200% from shop to ...