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About health insurers

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This section explains how health insurers operate in Australia.

• How health insurers work explains the regulations that determine how the different types of insurers operate
• Restricted insurers  are only available to people who are current or former members of the specific industry or organisation which sponsors the restricted fund
• Agreement hospitals describes the arrangements some health insurers have to provide services at reduced costs to consumers
• Gap cover doctors explains the arrangement some health insurers have with some doctors and the limits on these
• Corporate policies describes the tailored policies some health insurers provide
• State of the Funds Report provides a link to the latest State of the Funds report, produced annually by the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
• List of insurers provides a list of all registered providers.