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  • Private health funding cure likely to kill the patient
    The PNEP reneges on a floor price, mistakes costs for prices, fails to account for casemix or regionality, yet places the cost burden for innovation, quality, safety, choice and access on hospitals with no corresponding call on insurers. It's a mess...
  • Minor uptick in benefits ratio still falls short
    A first sign Federal Health Minister Mark Butler's March 2025 ultimatum to health insurers to increase their benefits payments to hospitals or face regulation may be having some effect, but the insurers are still coming up short...
  • Deflection doesn't absolve insurers on gap costs
    A massive 8.7 million people with hospital insurance, or a record 69.5% of all hospital-insured people, now have exclusions in their cover - that's up 30%, or two million people, in five years. The insurers are responsible for massive patient gaps...

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  • APHA response to draft Private National Efficient Price
    The Government's first cut at a PNEP is a mess, posing more problems than solutions. It is riddled with errors, false assumptions, omissions and drives a race to the bottom on lowest costs at the expense of quality healthcare...
  • Insurers wrecking the mental health mission
    The mental health crisis is worsening. Insurance profits are up, psychiatric hospitals are closing, public hospitals can't cope, patients are falling through the cracks and the government shrugs its shoulders. Our Op Ed in the Daily Telegraph...
  • Mandatory Code of Conduct essential for regulating health insurance companies
    APHA's column for Australian Doctor magazine details the unconscionable contracting tactics private health insurers stoop to so they can deny patients the care they need and short-change private hospitals on payments for treatment...

Australian Private Hospitals Association

43rd National Congress
Adelaide 2026

26-28 May

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Fact

1.66 million medical treatments a year, inc. 54% of chemotherapy

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Upcoming Events

6 March 2026

APHA Board Meeting

The Board will meet to canvass the issues and approaches confronting private hospitals, while providing input and advice on APHA activities and priorities...

18 March 2026

APHA Council Meeting

All members of the APHA Council will gather for the second meeting of the year to canvass the issues, concerns and opportunities for private hospitals and the priorities for the Association...

26 May 2026

APHA 43rd National Congress

The APHA 43rd National Congress brings Australia's private health leaders together for two days of insight, innovation and collaboration, creating a dynamic forum to shape the future of private healthcare.

Fact

61% of acute mental healthcare is provided by private hospitals

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Why choose private?

When it comes to your family's health, you want the best doctor, in a world-class state-of-the-art hospital suited to your needs, in a timeframe of NOW!

Choose your specialist

Private hospital care means you get to choose the leading specialists who will deliver your care. Whether it is maternity care where your obstetrician and midwife will be with you every step of the way from pregnancy to post-partum or elective surgery where your specialist delivers all of your care.

Building a relationship with a specialist and their team who will deliver on your needs is vital, and that indepth, personalised attention to detail is what sets private hospitals apart.

No waiting times

Going private means you decide when your surgery or treatment will be. You and your doctor choose the date that best suits your particular needs, so your procedure is performed much faster than through the public system and is focused on what works for you.

That means no waiting times for surgery in the private hospitals, where every effort is made to ensure your surgery is done quickly, smoothly and with the highest possible level of quality and professional care.

Private room

Let's face it, no-one wants to be in hospital, but if you have to you want to be comfortable. Private hospitals take care of the details that make your hospital stay the best it can be, including private rooms, private bathrooms, tv services and ordering your own food.

Private hospitals know new mums want their partner with them and their baby, they recognise parents need support in the first weeks of welcoming their bundle of joy – just some of the many benefits of going private.

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