Private Health Insurers

In this Guide, we list all the private health insurers operating in Australia and explain how they are regulated.

In Australia there are several different types of health insurers:

• registered insurers
• brands that sell health insurance products on behalf of the registered insurers
• open insurers
• restricted insurers
• for-profit insurers
• not-for-profit insurers.

This Guide is designed to help you find everything you need to know about private health insurers so you can make an informed decision about which one you choose to meet your private health insurance needs.