What is the difference between public and private hospitals?
Public hospitals • If you go into a public hospital as a public patient, you are fully covered under Medicare. That’s the good news. The not so good news is that you’ll have little or no say over who treats you, or when • If you go into a public hospital as a private patient, your Mutual Community hospital cover will pay for some of the costs associated with your treatment. You get to choose your doctor but you’ll still have little or no control over where or when you get treated Private hospitals If you go into a private hospital, Medicare will cover a portion of your medical treatment costs, but not your accommodation and theatre expenses. A way to cover yourself for those bills is with hospital cover offered by private health insurance. Our hospital cover contributes to the portion of medical costs if you are admitted to any hospital within our network of Members First or Participating Private hospitals, or public hospitals in Australia: • We cover you for the cost of medical treatm
Public hospitals • If you go into a public hospital as a public patient, you are fully covered under Medicare. That’s the good news. The not so good news is that you’ll have little or no say over who treats you, or when • If you go into a public hospital as a private patient, your Australia hospital cover will pay for some of the costs associated with your treatment. You get to choose your doctor but you’ll still have little or no control over where or when you get treated Private hospitals If you go into a private hospital, Medicare will cover a portion of your medical treatment costs, but not your accommodation and theatre expenses. A way to cover yourself for those bills is with hospital cover offered by private health insurance. Our hospital cover contributes to the portion of medical costs if you are admitted to any hospital within our network of Members First or Participating Private hospitals, or public hospitals in Australia: • We cover you for the cost of medical treatment up
Public hospitals • If you go into a public hospital as a public patient, you are fully covered under Medicare. That’s the good news. The not so good news is that you’ll have little or no say over who treats you, or when • If you go into a public hospital as a private patient, your HBA hospital cover will pay for some of the costs associated with your treatment. You get to choose your doctor but you’ll still have little or no control over where or when you get treated Private hospitals If you go into a private hospital, Medicare will cover a portion of your medical treatment costs, but not your accommodation and theatre expenses. A way to cover yourself for those bills is with hospital cover offered by private health insurance. Our hospital cover contributes to the portion of medical costs if you are admitted to any hospital within our network of Members First or Participating Private hospitals, or public hospitals in Australia: • We cover you for the cost of medical treatment up to the
