Hospital fees and claiming

Your hospital stay includes your room, theatre costs, intensive care (ICU) (if needed), inpatient medication and meals. These costs are generally covered by your private health insurance.

You may need to pay for any specialist services that are not included in your hospital cover, such as anaesthetist services and out of pocket fees charged by your surgeon. By law, doctors are required to provide full financial disclosure of known costs associated with your procedure before you go to hospital.

Check with your doctor and your health fund to see if your procedure will have any other out-of-pocket costs.

If you have a health fund excess you will be asked to pay this on admission. Some imaging and pathology charges may incur an out-of-pocket cost please check these charges with your health fund.

We will claim your costs on your behalf, so you don’t need to claim any of your hospital costs with your private health insurer.