Healthscope’s collapse unlikely to affect Hospital Cover treatments 

Healthscope private hospitals remain open for surgeries and treatments, despite the organisation going into receivership this week.  

Some Australians with Hospital Cover were concerned that private hospital treatment could be harder to access in the wake of the Healthscope collapse, but the organisation said its hospitals will remain open for treatments.  

Healthscope – which operates 37 private hospitals across Australia – went into receivership on Monday. While the company looks for a buyer, all surgeries and treatments will continue as scheduled. 

Anyone concerned about their surgery should contact their doctor and the hospital. 

“There are challenges around the viability long term of private hospitals, but I do want to stress that Healthscope is a unique case,” Minister of Health Mark Butler told the ABC. “It was a big private hospital operator, the second biggest in the country, bought out by an overseas private equity firm and subject to some very complicated and ultimately unsuccessful arrangements about how that was financially structured.” 

Read The Age’s story about the Healthscope collapse. 

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