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

Want to use health insurance in an emergency? Here’s what it does (and doesn’t) cover

Imagine going to a public hospital’s emergency department and a nurse from a private hospital asks you if you want to go to there instead.

This is the basis of a trial arrangement with a Ramsay Health Care nurse embedded at a Queensland public hospital emergency department. The idea is to divert privately insured patients to a Ramsay private hospital, reducing pressure on the public system.

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