Patients' out-of-pocket spending on Medicare services 2016–17

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Release Date: 16 Aug 2018

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Patients' out-of-pocket spending on Medicare services 2016–17, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 04 June 2023.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Patients' out-of-pocket spending on Medicare services 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Patients' out-of-pocket spending on Medicare services 2016–17. AIHW, 2018.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Patients' out-of-pocket spending on Medicare services 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018, Patients' out-of-pocket spending on Medicare services 2016–17, AIHW, Canberra.

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This new report shows variation in the total out-of-pocket costs that patients face in a year for Medicare services delivered outside of the hospital. It shines a spotlight on the costs patients pay for specialist, GP, diagnostic imaging and obstetric services. It also looks at patients’ experience of cost barriers to specialist, GP, imaging and pathology care.

This report was first published on the MyHealthyCommunities website.

ISBN: 978-1-76054-406-5
Cat. no: HPF 35
Pages: 18

Findings from this report:

Half of all patients—10.9 million people—had out-of-pocket costs for non-hospital Medicare services
Patients in metropolitan PHN areas were less likely to have out-of-pocket costs than patients in regional PHN areas
The proportion of patients with out-of-pocket costs for imaging tests was 5 times higher in some PHNs than others
The median out-of-pocket cost per specialist visit ranged from $36 to $97 across local areas (for patients with costs)

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This report was first published on the MyHealthyCommunities website.

For a full list of AIHW products that include data and results by small areas (for example, by Primary Health Network areas) see AIHW data by geography.

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