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30 July 2008
Health Funds Association Annual
Report for 2007-2008
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25 July 2008
Slower growth in health
insurance a warning for public
hospitals
Deteriorating
economic conditions slowed the
growth of the health insurance
sector in the June quarter,
which could place more pressure
on the public health system,
according to the Health Funds
Association (HFANZ).
more
26 June 2008
Health Funds Association Cover
Stories Health Insurance
News - June 2008
In this issue: Budget reaction;
Health insurance coverage up;
Insurers meet solvency standard;
Healthier workers means
healthier bottom line for
employers.
more
25 June 2008
Health insurers meet solvency
standard
Health insurers today published
details of their solvency
positions under the Solvency
Standard adopted last year.
more
13 June 2008
Patients health and wallets
will suffer from lab test scheme
Patients will suffer as a result
of the decision by the Otago and
Southland District Health Boards
to stop paying for laboratory
tests ordered by private
specialists, the Health Funds
Association says.
more
19 May 2008
Private elective surgery
contribution needs recognition
The Government could do better
with the growing elective
surgery need if it recognised
the valuable contribution of the
private sector, says the Health
Funds Association of New
Zealand (HFANZ).
more
9 May 2008
Hospital strikes, uncertainty
contribute to private sector
growth
The number of New Zealanders
covered by health insurance rose
by 18,800 to a record 1.388
million in the year to the end
of March, according to
statistics released today by the
Health Funds Association of New
Zealand (HFANZ).
more
17 April 2008
Lab test scheme 'failed exercise
in cost-shifting'
Today's
release of the long-awaited
evaluation of patient charges
for laboratory testing in
Wellington shows the experiment
to be a failed exercise in
cost-shifting, according to the
Health Funds Association.
more
16 April 2008
Health industry supports call to
scrap FBT
The health industry says 250,000
more New Zealanders could
benefit from health insurance
cover if a Government advisory
group's recommendation to
abolish fringe benefit tax (FBT)
is adopted.
more
8 April 2008
Healthy workers mean healthier
bottom line
Employers could find it easier
to attract workers to meet the
skills shortage in many
industries if they added health
benefits to employment packages,
according to Health Funds
Association executive director
Roger Styles.
more
17 March 2008
Cover Stories - our quarterly
newsletter
Keeping you up to date with
trends and issues in the health
sector
March 2008 Issue
New updated "Making
Sense of Health Insurance"
brochures now available.
Our brochures contain all you
need to know about private
health insurance. Place
your order
here
10 March 2008
Submission on Financial Service
Providers (Registration and
Dispute Resolution) Bill
HFANZ supports the objectives of
the Bill and the proposed
requirement for registration of
financial service providers.
go to submission
3 March 2008
Delay of lab tests may be
deliberate
South Island District Health
Boards are to decide the fate of
controversial laboratory test
funding proposals without being
allowed to see an evaluation of
trials conducted in Wellington
last year.
More
18
February 2008
Latest stats show big jump in
Health Insurance coverage
The
number of New Zealanders covered
by health insurance jumped by
17,000 in 2007, to reach 1.387
million people.
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