This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Keeping premiums affordable requires modern healthcare
If Labor wants to keep health insurance affordable to take pressure off the public system, tougher reforms are needed to make our health system more efficient and sustainable.
- Rachel David
- Exclusive
- Inflation
Labor rejects 6pc rise in health insurance premiums
Health Minister Mark Butler has rejected a request to lift premiums by 4 to 6 per cent, as Labor tries to quell voter discontent over cost of living pressures.
- Updated
- Michael Read
November
Three’s a crowd: Medibank in final furlong for $500m-plus Cura
It’s a straight-up cleaner deal for ICG, which has owned the business previously.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
A pet crocodile is the least interesting thing about this CEO
ERA chief Brad Welsh has worked in child protection services, the Prime Minister’s Office and shares a house with a baby croc.
- Peter Ker
October
Medibank eyes larger MyHealth stake as founder looks for the exit
Street Talk understands the $9.7 billion ASX-listed private health insurance giant will become Myhealth’s largest shareholder
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
August
Brace for higher health insurance premiums, NIB boss says
While increases will stay well short of the super-sized increases in car and home insurance, Mark Fitzgibbon says the days of low premium growth are gone
- Lucas Baird
July
Bupa names new local chief executive
Nick Stone has been tapped to lead Bupa Asia Pacific, succeeding long-serving chief executive Hisham El-Ansary who stepped down last year after 15 years with the healthcare group.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Worker rehabilitation business up for sale; Greenstone on ticket
No doubt Greenstone’s first port of call would be deal-hungry trade players, looking for market share.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June
When it’s worth taking out health insurance as a young person
As the new financial year approaches, tax and personal finance experts say it’s a good time to do the maths on private cover.
- Lucy Dean
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Medibank’s $250m hit big enough to scare others into cyber action
Lucky Medibank had a buffer, but the capital charge still hurts shareholders and should be enough to shock other financial services companies into action.
- Anthony Macdonald
Medibank staff details taken after building manager gets hacked
Medibank employee names, work email addresses and phone numbers were taken after a firm the health insurer works with was hit by the MOVEit cyberattack.
- Max Mason, Lucas Baird and Nick Bonyhady
NIB doubles down on online script bet with $24m investment
The insurer was already the largest shareholder in Midnight Health, and the new funding comes despite a crackdown on digital consultations.
- Nick Bonyhady
NDIS participants slam ‘discriminatory’ price gouging in review
NDIS participants say they get charged more than double the cost for the same service an able-bodied person could get from an allied health professional.
- Gus McCubbing
May
AMP fined $24m for charging dead clients in watchdog crackdown
And in a separate case, MLC Life was fined $10 million for failing to pay injured and disabled customers for treatment programs they had promised to cover.
- Hannah Wootton
‘I may have to move house’: Fresh Medibank class action launches
Medibank is facing a fresh class action case led by Slater & Gordon, with customers explaining the dramas caused when their private data was published online.
- Paul Smith
The one thing you need to do before your kids travel abroad
Getting your offspring to give you power of attorney before they travel or work overseas can help you protect and support them if they are scammed or sick.
- Duncan Hughes
February
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘We were getting 80m attacks a day’: Medibank looks past cyber storm
The health insurer is noticing early signs that customers are starting to move past its hacking disaster and believes it can return to growth.
- James Thomson
Martine used to work 60 hours a week. Long COVID changed everything
Martine van Boeijen told a parliamentary inquiry that long COVID saw her go from a “fit, active, career-focused business owner”, to a “house-bound invalid”.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What we learnt: Bendigo joins banking’s Game of Thrones
Bendigo Bank war-games the profit versus growth conundrum, why NIB’s profit drop is a good thing, and Reliance Worldwide thinks small.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Health insurers return windfall billions to customers
Bupa, Medibank and NIB Holdings have all put off premium increases in line with their promises not to profit from pandemic.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
