Australia's second-largest private hospital operator Healthscope is reportedly cutting all ties with two major private health insurers -- Bupa and Australian Health Services Alliance (AHSA) -- after the latter denied giving a proposed hospital fee.

Healthscope, which ran 38 private hospitals across the country, said the proposed fee addressed the funding shortfall between insurance payouts and rising hospital costs, ABC reported. The split will likely result in higher treatment costs for 6.6........

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