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Industry Statistics
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Release Dates for Statistics provides approximate dates when the quarterly statistics will be released from embargo.
Quarterly publications
Current release June 2010
A report that details key membership, utilisation, benefit and financial statistics on a quarterly basis.
Data tables
Membership and Coverage Statistics
Current release June 2010
Provides details by State the number of insured persons for hospital treatment and general treatment and the proportion of the population these persons represent. The tables are shown on both a quarterly and an annual basis and include hospital treatment by age cohort.
Current release June 2010
Provides data on in-hospital medical services. The proportion of services for which there was no gap or known gap and the average gap payment are shown for each state.
Current release June 2010
Provides data by State, the membership and benefits paid by private health insurers for the period. These State reports are available both in PDF format and Excel.
Current release June 2010
Provides data on prosthetic benefits paid by private health insurers by major prosthetic category.
Current release June 2010
Provides data on services, benefits paid and gap payments by MBS Specialty Block Groupings for medical services paid by private health insurers.
Statistical Trends - Quarterly Statistics
Current release March 2010
Provides statistical trends in membership and benefits paid in two separate publications that detail trends since September 1997 in the number of insured persons and benefits paid for hospital and general treatment.
Current release December 2009
The results of the Annual December Coverage Survey are accessible from this section.
Annual publications
Annual Report - Operations of the Registered Health Benefits Organisations
The most recent report reviewing the annual operations of health funds. This publication contains an industry overview and tables of statistics by individual fund.
Tables from previous annual reports are also available in excel format.