Payment & Insurance

Payment & Insurance

Hospital Fees & Charges

Hospital charges can include accommodation, use of the theater, prostheses, and essential pharmacy items for your care. Charges can vary depending on treatment required, prostheses provided and individual private health insurance contracts. Hospital costs do not include non-hospital or medical provider costs, such as your doctor, anesthetist, pathology and X-ray.

All known hospital costs (other than those covered by contracted insurers) are payable on admission. They may be paid in cash, by most credit cards, money orders or traveller’s cheques. The hospital also has EFTPOS facilities; however, cash-out service is not available. If any additional patient costs arise related to your procedure, you are required to pay these prior to or on discharge.

Private Health Insurance

If you have private health insurance please speak to your health fund prior to admission to hospital to ensure you understand your level of cover.

Important questions are:

Department of Veterans' Affairs (OVA)

If you have DVA cover:

ZIP payment

ZIP is one of the special Pay Later options in which the credit allowance increases as the usage increases.

If you're
SELF INSURED

If you are paying the hospital account yourself, you will need to contact Springwood Day Surgery by telephone to obtain a quote once you have discussed your admission with your doctor.

As a self-insured patient, you are required to pay for all estimated hospital costs on admission. If additional costs arise, you are required to pay these prior to discharge.