Bronze Hospital Plus $500 Excess with Combined Good Extras

Hospital: what is covered

Restricted means partially covered for hospital costs as a private patient in a public hospital; in a private room or private hospital you may face significant expenses.

Excess, waiting periods and hospital

• Tier - Bronze Plus
• Hospital - Private hospital, or a shared room in a public hospital
• Excess - Capped per person and per policy per year. $500 per admission. $500 per person a year. $1,000 per policy a year. No excess for accidents.
• Co-payments - None.
• Known gap - Yes, with the fund's doctors
• Age-based discount - Offered for 18 to 29 year olds
• Accident cover - Yes
• Travel and accommodation benefits - No

Waiting periods

• Most treatments - 2 months
• Existing conditions - 12 months
• Rehabilitation, psychiatric and palliative care - 2 months

As filed by the insurer: Health Partners Support Programs: Hospital, and, Chemo in the Home. Unlimited Emergency Ambulance. Includes Accident Cover – providing you with protection for all clinical categories that are listed as exclusions on your cover. T&Cs apply. Plus access to a range of Member Discounts, visit healthpartners.com.au for more information.

Extras: what you get back

Not covered: Braces, Hearing aids, Blood glucose monitors, Audiology, Antenatal and postnatal, Chinese herbal medicine, Health management programs, Home nursing, Orthotics.

* Health Partners and participating providers are in SA only. If you attend a Health Partners Dental or participating dental provider, higher benefits and 100% back on a dental check-up, including x-rays, will apply. General, Major and Endodontic dental benefits are based on the Health Partners schedule of fees. If your provider charges a higher fee, a larger gap payment will apply. 100% back up to your optical limits applies anywhere (sub-limit applies at recognised providers), but at Health Partners Optical you also receive 40% thereafter once limit reached. At Health Partners participating physiotherapists higher benefits apply. T&Cs apply.

Other services, as filed: In South Australia, get more from your cover by using Health Partners Dental and Optical practices - like 100% back on your dental check-up (including x-rays). Plus, 60% benefit on other general and major dental services, up to your limits. At Health Partners Optical, you get 100% back on your optical limit, and an unlimited 40% benefit after you’ve reached your limit. 100% back on your optical limit is also available at other recognised optical providers, sub-limit applies. At our participating physios get 100% back on a physio visit and 60% thereafter, up to your limit. Save 20% every day on full-price, non-prescription products at over 50 pharmacies across South Australia, which include participating Priceline and TerryWhite Chemmart stores. T&Cs apply.

Combined limits create flexibility for you to use your limit on what's important to you. Acupuncture and remedial massage limits also includes other natural therapies, such as Chinese herbalism, myofascial release, therapeutic massage, Swedish massage, myotherapy & nutritionist. T&Cs apply.

Ambulance

Emergency ambulance. Call-out fees covered. Waiting period for emergency transport: 2 months. No limit on emergency transport.

Agreement hospitals in South Australia

Health Partners has agreements with 40 private hospitals here, as filed with the Ombudsman.

This policy's other options

Every state, household and excess the insurer filed for this policy, with the premium before the rebate.

Member retention (hospital cover)

88.7% is the Commonwealth Ombudsman's figure for Health Partners in its State of the Health Funds Report 2024-25 (Table 1, page 15; data at 30 June 2025).

The Ombudsman describes it as one measure of the comparative effectiveness of insurers and of their level of member satisfaction: the percentage of members, hospital memberships only, who have remained with the insurer for 2 years or more (page 12). It is published for the insurer, not for this policy, and is not adjusted for policies that lapse when a member dies. The Ombudsman cautions that no single indicator shows an insurer's overall performance (page 27).

It is shown as published. The list is not sorted, filtered or ranked by it.

Member retention is the Commonwealth Ombudsman's figure, from its State of the Health Funds Report 2024-25. Source: Licensed from the Commonwealth Ombudsman under a Creative Commons 4.0 licence. This report is available from the Commonwealth Ombudsman website at www.ombudsman.gov.au.

Where this comes from

Policy details come from the PrivateHealth.gov.au dataset published by the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman on data.gov.au (release of 1 Oct 2026), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia. Statement C26/VEFJ1D, filed by Health Partners, issued 1 Apr 2026.