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7 July 2010
Lab charge decision welcomed
The Health Funds
Association (HFANZ) has welcomed
the Government's decision today
to end the practice health
boards charging private patients
for lab tests.
more
18 May 2010
Annual Review 2010
Review of the year ended March
2010 including activities and
key statistics.
more
20 April 2010
Health insurance to fund $1
billion in healthcare by 2012:
HFANZ
The Health Funds Association
(HFANZ) predicts continued
growth in claims paid will see
health insurance funding a
billion dollars worth of health
care each year by the end of
2012.
more
17 March 2010
Cover Stories - Health Insurance
News March 2010
Inside this issue How a health
insurance rebate for the
over-65s might work, Record
claims show health insurance
value, ACC crackdown hikes up
premiums, Obama's health reforms
adopted, Australian Govt may
tweak healthcare bill, Order our
newly update brochure.
more
16 March 2010
Health Funds Association members
all meet full solvency standard
All 10 health insurers who are
members of the Health Funds
Association (HFANZ) meet its
voluntary solvency standard,
according to updated details
published today.
more
4 February
2010
Record claims show health
insurance value
Health insurance claims topped
three-quarters of a billion
dollars for the first time last
year, according to industry
figurers released today by the
Health Funds Association
(HFANZ).
more
3 January 2010
Time to reconsider health
insurance rebate for over-65s
The Health Funds Association of
New Zealand (HFANZ) wants the
Government to revisit its
proposal for a health insurance
rebate for those aged over 65,
in the wake of a better economic
outlook for 2010.
more
6 November
2009
Cover Stories - Health Insurance
News November 2009
Inside this issue Insurers
welcome certainty from Shroff's
ruling, New insurance calculator
on Sorted.org.nz, Private health
funding stimulus needed, Acc
cuts hit insurers, US health
reforms overdue, Australian
Senate scraps healthcare bill.
more
5 November
2009
Insurers target rising health
costs
Rising health costs are the key
challenge facing the health
insurance sector, the Health
Funds Association notes in
releasing the industry's
quarterly statistics today.
more
21 October
2009
Health management changes
welcomed by HFANZ
Efficiency gains expected as a
result of changes to the public
health system announced by the
Government today have been
welcomed by the Health Funds
Association (HFANZ).
more
12 October
2009
Lab test changing decision
imminent
A decision by the Government is
expected soon to make permanent
the moratorium on laboratory
test charges for the private
patients, according to Health
Funds Association executive
director Roger Styles.
more
30 September
2009
Private health funding stimulus
needed, says HFANZ
New Zealand lags behind the OECD
in private health funding, and
we need policy reform to address
this, a health funding
conference in Wellington has
been told today.
more
4 August 2009
Health insurance market remains
steady
The health insurance sector has
continued to weather the
economic recession well, with
the latest quarter showing a
small increase in the number of
people with health policies, the
Health Funds Association (HFANZ)
said today.
more
17 June 2009
Positive year for health
insurance
Increasing numbers of
policyholders, together with a
shift in government emphasis
towards better use of the
private sector, made 2008-09
year a positive one for health
insurance.
more
10 June 2009
Health Funds Association Annual
Report for 2008-2009
more
29 April 2009
Health Insurance market is
weathering the storm
The health insurance market
appears to be weathering the
global economic storm well,
according to figures released
today by the Health Funds
Association of New Zealand
(HFANZ).
more
20 April 2009
OECD's health prescription
welcomed by HFANZ
The OECD's recommendations for a
greater role for private health
insurance have been welcomed
today by the Health Funds
Association of New Zealand
(HFANZ).
more
16 March 2009
27
people a day taking out new
health insurance policies -
March 2009
Health insurers recorded an
extra 9700 lives covered in
2008, an increase of 0.7 percent
on 2007, bringing the total
number of New Zealanders with
health insurance to 1.397
million
more
9 February
2009
Evidence health insurance more
important than ever in recession
About 27 New Zealanders a
day took out new health
insurance policies in 2008,
according to figures released
today by the Health Funds
Association (HFANZ).
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