Insurer HCF bows to NSW pressure on hospital bed rates

Australia’s third-largest health insurer HCF has bowed to pressure from the Minns government and agreed to double the amount it pays its members for single room stays in NSW public hospitals as part of strike splitting insurers.

On Sunday NSW Labor said Medibank Private, Bupa and NIB continued to reject the government’s request to pay higher room rates. However, NIB chief executive Mark Fitzgibbon disputed this and said the insurer had also agreed to pay a “significantly higher” rate.

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