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Andrew Brown

Calls for health insurance oversight after premium rise

Private health insurers such as Medibank will pass on premium rises to customers. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia's peak medical body wants independent oversight of price hikes to private health insurance premiums, following a more than three per cent spike.

The federal government has approved an average industry premium rise of 3.03 per cent from April, the largest increase in five years after jumps of 2.9 per cent in 2023 and 2.7 per cent in both 2022 and 2021.

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