{"id":987522052,"date":"2021-04-13T03:11:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/millions-of-australians-facing-another-private-health-insurance-price-hike\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:31:55","slug":"millions-of-australians-facing-another-private-health-insurance-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/millions-of-australians-facing-another-private-health-insurance-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Australians facing another private health insurance price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 14 million&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/australia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"\" title=\"Australians\">Australians<\/a>&nbsp;with private&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/health-insurance\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"\" title=\"health insurance\">health insurance<\/a>&nbsp;will face a price hike come April 1 \u2013 the second in just six months.&nbsp;The federal government will also decrease its rebate slightly from 25.059 per cent for under 65s on the base tier to 24.608 per cent on April 1, making premiums a little more pricey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This latest price hike of an average 2.7 per cent will add around $122 a year on average to the family policy \u2013 the second in six months. Singles will pay around $60 a year more.<\/p>\n<p>The latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apra.gov.au\/quarterly-private-health-insurance-statistics\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"\" title=\"APRA report\">APRA report<\/a>&nbsp;published last month found out-of-pocket expenses for hospital treatment was up 13 per cent on the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Private health insurers increase their premiums on April 1 each year. But as the pandemic hit last year, many deferred their annual increase to October 1.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/private-health-insurance-price-hike-on-april-1-what-it-means-for-you\/ef31ec08-e634-4a5e-91c3-8f146566d388\">News 9 here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/private-health-insurance-changes-explained-age-of-dependants-rises-to-31\/39146278-279c-4938-828e-d63972f56996\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><strong>Private Health Insurance changes for 2021 explained<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthworkscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Private-health-cover.jpg\">Health workers collective<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 14 million&nbsp;Australians&nbsp;with private&nbsp;health insurance&nbsp;will face a price hike come April 1 \u2013 the second in just six months.&nbsp;The federal government will also decrease its rebate slightly from 25.059 per cent for under 65s on the base tier to 24.608 per cent on April 1, making premiums a little more pricey.&nbsp; This latest price hike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}