This quick guide outlines the broad arrangements around private health insurance that exist today. It provides brief information on the industry and regulatory arrangements, private health insurance membership and types of cover, government surcharges and incentives, and key features of private health insurance in Australia.

The AMA Private Health Insurance Report Card provides consumers with clear, simple information about how health insurance really works. The 2017 Report Card shows that there are a lot of policies on offer and that these provide significantly varying levels of cover, gaps and management expenses.

The AMA Private Health Insurance Report Card provides consumers with clear, simple information about how health insurance really works. It provides information to show the differences between private health insurance policies and the disparity of benefits paid by health insurers for medical treatment which may lead to out of pocket expenses.

This report is prepared pursuant to section 167 of the Private Health Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2015. The report details the operations of private health insurers including details about: premiums and other amounts payable to the fund; fund benefits and other amounts payable out of the fund; management expenses; the balance of the fund as...

This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size of regression discontinuities. We also propose a bootstrapping...