News Asia31 May 2017

Australia:Insured patients face shorter waiting time for surgery

31 May 2017

The median waiting time is 20 days for patients having elective surgery in a public hospital but using private health insurance to pay for some or all of it. This is more than half of the median of 42 days faced by public patients, says the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) in a report.

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