Private health insurance, methodology and interpretation of ‘Variation in outpatient consultation fees of psychiatrists in Australia by state and territory'

Jeffrey C.L. Looi; Stephen Allison; Tarun Bastiampillai; William Pring

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Private health insurance, methodology and interpretation of ‘Variation in outpatient consultation fees of psychiatrists in Australia by state and territory'

Jeffrey C.L. Looi, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, William Pring

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We highlight methodological and interpretational issues regarding a recent paper which investigates private outpatient psychiatric consultation fees and marshals arguments for allowing private health insurers to subsidise outpatient psychiatric consultations.1 We discuss the central interpretational issues here and outline methodological concerns in Table 1.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	854-855
Number of pages	2
Journal	Australasian Psychiatry
Volume	31
Issue number	6
Early online date	5 Oct 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562231205121
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023

Keywords

Private Health Insurance
Outpatient
Fees
Psychiatrists

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Private health insurance, methodology and interpretation of ‘Variation in outpatient consultation fees of psychiatrists in Australia by state and territory'

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