People with private health insurance can jump the public healthcare queue by using private health services instead. Is there ...

Because Health New Zealand has refused to reveal how much it is paying private hospitals to perform elective surgeries under a new government contract, it is difficult to assess whether taxpayers are ...

Private equity (PE) has played a large and growing role in shaping the American health care landscape. Over the past decade ...

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 ...

This article is part of “Ethics & Health Systems Change,” an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles ...

Labor will push ahead with a plan to reduce insurance rebates, meaning three million older Australians to pay $250 extra a year for private health ...

A new bill aimed at allowing Alberta physicians to practise in both private and public health-care systems will keep family doctors out of the private system — for now. “At this time, family medicine ...

Outsourcing patients to private hospitals is helping England’s overstretched National Health Service ensure most people get treated more than a month faster than they otherwise would, according to a ...