Posts Tagged ‘Health Funds’
PHI Rebates Are Back for Naturopathy & Herbal Medicine!
We’re celebrating a major milestone for natural healthcare in Australia! 🎉 On April 14, 2025, the Hon. Mark Butler officially endorsed the NTREAP expert panel’s recommendations to reinstate Private Health Insurance (PHI) rebates for Naturopathy and Western Herbal Medicine. These rebates were removed in 2019, pending a thorough review of evidence around their effectiveness and…
Read MoreHealth Fund rebates for Nat and WHM – Are we there yet?
The journey to restore natural therapies in private health insurance has been long. And it’s not over yet. In 2015, the Government reviewed 16 natural therapies. It found insufficient evidence of effectiveness and removed rebates for treatments like Naturopathy and Western Herbal Medicine. This decision hit our industry hard. Public and professional concern led to…
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