BUPA Australia
About BUPA Australia
BUPA AUSTRALIA is a leading health fund in Australia, supporting more than one million Australians with their health care.
Through our management and global expertise, our members continue to benefit from:
- Consistently lower premium rises than the national industry average
- Consistently lower management expenses than the national industry average
- The highest percentage of hospital charges covered,¹ of the ten largest health funds
BUPA Australia operates as Mutual Community in South Australia and the Northern Territory and HBA in all other states.
HBA and Mutual Community have been providing Australian's with affordable, high quality health insurance and reliable service for more than 60 years.
BUPA Australia is part of the BUPA group, one of the world's leading independent health insurance and health care organisation, insuring eight million people world-wide.
1 Private Health Insurance Ombudsman – State of Health Funds Report 2006, 28 March 2007 Pg. 34 www.phio.org.au
Media Releases
- Federal Court approves merger of MBF and BUPA Australia
- Members give overwhelming support for merger proposal
- BUPA Australia welcomes release of merger proposal
- BUPA Australia keeps below seven year average
- BUPA Australia welcomes MBF's progress to vote on merger - Feb 2008
- BUPA strengthens commitment to Australasia with Amity and Guardian Health Care - Dec 2007
- BUPA Australia welcomes MBF Board recommendation - Dec 2007
- MBF and BUPA Australia in merger discussions - Dec 2007
- ACCC not to oppose merger - Nov 2007
- BUPA acquires leading care home business in Australia and New Zealand - Oct 2007
- BUPA Australia's proposed merger with MBF - Aug 2007


