Report on private health insurance costs delayed

By Lloyd Mudiwa. The publication date of the second phase report to identify effective cost management strategies in response to rising costs of private health insurance has been pushed back by a month, IMT reports.   New legislation was enacted during 2013 to ensure that the appropriate charging for the use of public hospital services by private patients was recouped from private health insurance companies.   Following this, the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly, as part of a consultative forum of health insurance companies, appointed Pat McLoughlin as independent Chair, to work with the insurance firms and his Department…