Pre-Admission & Financial Information
Guide
This guide has been developed to provide a checklist for admission
to the hospital. In particular the guide aims to provide you
with the information relating to fees and charges that may be
applicable to your admission.
Additional details regarding the hospital are available in the
Patient Information Guide.
Preparing for Your Admission
Please return your completed Patient
Pre-Admission Form to the hospital as soon as possible.
If you have any medication queries, please contact your doctor.
Confirm your private health insurance status with your health
fund.
Please call the hospital on 9745-7444, after 3pm on the day prior
to your admission to confirm arrival and fasting times.
What to Bring
It is important to ensure that you have the following
items available on admission:
- Any letter(s) from your doctor relating to your procedure
- Please bring with you appropriate X-rays, scans and medical
reports.
- All medications that you are currently taking or
a list of your current medications and how often you take them
(your GP can
assist you with this).
- Your Medicare Card and Pension Cards
- Your health fund details or Veterans’ Affairs Entitlement
Card.
- If you are having day surgery, please wear loose,
comfortable and appropriate clothing.
- If you are staying overnight, please bring personal
items such as night attire, dressing gown, slippers and personal
toiletries.
- Please do not bring valuables to the hospital.
Hospital Fees & Charges
Strathfield Private Hospital has negotiated agreements with
major health funds to ensure hospital charges are paid by the
relevant fund, except where you have made a particular personal
choice in your level of cover e.g. cardiac or major orthopaedic
exclusions.
Please contact your health fund in order to be sure of your
personal circumstances.
All doctors’ fees and diagnostic services (eg x-rays and
pathology) will be billed separately.
If you are not privately insured, you will be asked to pay the estimated cost of hospitalisation on admission.
It is therefore necessary to contact our pre-admission clerk
for an estimate of fees and charges prior to the admission date.
Payment may be made by Cash, Eftpos, Personal Cheque (up to
$250) or Bank Cheque, Bankcard, Mastercard and Visa. Diners and
American Express are not accepted.
Patients covered by Workers Compensation, Veteran Affairs or
the State Government Insurance Commission are requested to supply
details of the insurer’s name and claim number prior to
admission as we require written confirmation of acceptance of
liability by your insurer.
Financial Pre-Admission Check List
The following checklist has
been compiled to clarify patient financial responsibility. We
invite you to take a few minutes
to consider this checklist prior to your admission.
- Do you know how much your specialist charges?
- Will your specialist be using a surgical assistant?
- Do you know how much your anaesthetist charges?
If you are insured have you discussed with your health fund
what they will pay towards the following:
- Doctor / Assistant Surgeon
- Anaesthetist
- Pharmacy
- Radiology
- Pathology
- Physiotherapy
- Private Hospital Services
- Theatre Fees
- Accommodation Fees
- Intensive Care
- Prosthesis
- Do you have any excess or co-payments with
your health fund?
- Have you served 12 months or more in private
hospital health cover?
- Does your cover have any exclusions e.g. cardiac
If your health fund has advised you that you will not be covered
for your procedure, please contact the Pre-Admission Officer
for an estimate of hospital services on 9745-7444.
If you are not insured and paying for your own hospitalisation,
has your specialist given you the following information to obtain
an estimation of costs from the hospital?
- Estimated procedure item numbers
- Appropriate length of stay
- Prosthesis or disposable items
If you have the above details please contact Pre-Admissions
Clerk for an estimate of hospital services on 9745-7444.
All estimates provided by Strathfield Private Hospital are based
on item numbers and length of stay as indicated by your doctor
prior to admission.
Please note, in the event of unforseen complications or variations
from the proposed treatment the cost may vary.
You may also receive accounts for the following services:
- Prosthetic / Disposable items
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Pathology
- Radiology
- Surgeon
- Assistant Surgeon
- Anaesthetist.
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