In this paper, we examine trends in provider fees charged, government expenditure on private out-of-hospital medical services, and out of pocket costs following policy changes intended to reduce government expenditure. We examine the experience of a high-need patient group: people diagnosed with...

The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical treatment. The EMSN works on a calendar year basis. Once a patient incurs a specified amount of OOP costs, the EMSN provides additional...

Childhood abuse is a serious social and economic problem. In Australia, there are 17,000 substantiated cases of physical and sexual child abuse each year. We model the relationship between childhood abuse and long‐term health, health care costs and well being using data from the 2007 National...