{"id":278152,"date":"2025-12-01T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/australian-insurance-companies-pay-the-highest-ever-for-health-benefits-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:41:44","slug":"australian-insurance-companies-pay-the-highest-ever-for-health-benefits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/australian-insurance-companies-pay-the-highest-ever-for-health-benefits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian insurance companies pay the highest ever for health benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Australian insurance companies have made their highest ever claim payments under the 2024 health benefit. <\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Private Health Services Australia, published in November 2025, Australia&#8217;s insurance companies paid out about AU$9.4 billion in health benefits in the 12 months to December 2024. According to the &#8216;Annual Hospital High Claims 2025&#8217; report, the health fund paid a total of 453,259 hospital high claims in 2024. Which is the highest ever. This is an increase of 9 percent compared to the same period a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>Higher claims refer to claims where the total insurance company benefit payment exceeds AU$10,000. High claims accounted for 50.4 percent of all hospital benefits paid in 2024. That&#8217;s an increase of 1.3 percentage points compared to June 2023. <\/p>\n<p>According to Private Health Services Australia, this increase reflects the increasing difficulty and cost of hospital care in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Australian insurance companies have made their highest ever claim payments under the 2024 health benefit. According to a report by Private Health Services Australia, published in November 2025, Australia&#8217;s insurance companies paid out about AU$9.4 billion in health benefits in the 12 months to December 2024. According to the &#8216;Annual Hospital High Claims 2025&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/16624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}