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Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne

Is the private hospital system collapsing? Here’s what the sector’s financial instability means for you

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Toowong Private Hospital in Brisbane is the latest hospital to succumb to financial pressures and will close its doors next week. The industry association attributes the psychiatric hospital’s closure to insufficient payments from and delayed funding negotiations with private insurers.

Meanwhile, the future of Australia’s second-largest hospital provider, Healthscope, remains uncertain, after its parent company went into receivership last week.

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