Private Health Care Cover

HCF Private Health Care vs. Medicare

Medicare and what private health care can do for you. The Medicare is available to Australia's nationals and most long-term resident population. They cover part of the costs of visiting a family doctor or specialists (or the full costs if billed in large quantities), and most prescribing medications. If you are a publicly admitted person in a publicly admitted clinic, you will be cared for by licensed physicians and will be on waiting lists for non-emergency care.

The Medicare does not cover the costs of an ambulance, glasses/contact lens or listening aid. The private health plan can close the loopholes in Medicare cover and give you more choices about your treatments. Hospitals health care allows you to be a private individual receiving care in a private or communal clinic. If you are a private individual, you have a better opportunity to be able to choose your physician.

It is likely that you will have to await non-emergency care in a government clinic; private clinics can offer quicker entry. Eligibility (which types of care and procedure you can take) depends on your coverage ratio. It is advisable to find out in advance whether your health insurer will cover the full costs of your medical care so that you do not face unanticipated costs known as "the gap".

Extra insurance allows you to benefit from a number of daily benefits such as dentistry, eyeglasses and contacts, as well as a variety of non- Medicare therapy options. What kind of care you can take and how much you can take (your limits) depends on your coverage ratio.

Health transport insurance will cover the costs of rescue service (not provided by Medicare). This is contained on all floors of the HCF Clinic and is backed by extra features. And if you want pure health insurance, we will do the same. When you take out insurance before the 31st year of life, you are avoiding the burden of life-long health insurance and thus reducing the costs of your premiums.

Rebate is also intended to make private health care more accessible.