Penny Pryor has more than two decades experience writing, reporting and editing financial services publications. She has contributed to, and edited, the Money Section of the Sun Herald and The Sunday ...

Government incentives continue to drive people to take out cover merely to avoid tax penalties ...

Auditing your health insurance has to be an annual task if you want to be efficient with your finances, writes Australian policy expert Kat George. While your needs might change, the strategy you use ...

Fresh research has revealed almost half of Australians are set to scrap their health cover ahead of a premium rate rise.

Almost half of Australians with private health insurance intend to change or drop their cover ahead of the 4.41% average ...

BARTON, Australia, Dec. 15 (TNSres) -- The Australian Medical Association issued the following news release: Australian patients are being shortchanged by private health insurance companies, which are ...

Sophie Venz is a former Deputy Editor at Forbes Advisor. She is an experienced editor and features reporter, and has previously worked in the small business and start-up reporting space. Previously ...

Private health insurance premiums will rise at their fastest rate in almost a decade, after the federal government approved a 4.41 per cent average increase from April.

Health Minister Mark Butler has asked the Department of Health to "urgently investigate" private health funds, which continue to exploit a regulatory loophole to raise premiums. The loophole — product ...

Yuting Zhang has received funding from the Australian Research Council (future fellowship project ID FT200100630), Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Victorian Department of Health, and National ...

Trevor Cox was driving his wife to hospital for an emergency shoulder replacement when a phone call changed everything. Marie Cox had fallen on a nature strip and shattered her shoulder "like a Violet ...