Southern Cross Healthcare (New Zealand)

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Southern Cross Healthcare is a not-for-profit New Zealand healthcare insurance and health services provider.[1] It is the largest New Zealand health insurance company, with 831,256 people holding policies with the company as of December 2007 (almost a fourth of the population, and 60% of the health insurance market).[2][3] The strong growth has been attributed to the increasing delays for elective surgery in public hospitals in New Zealand,[2] and the insurance company now funds more such operations than the public sector.[4]

The organisation also has a chain of 10 hospitals and surgery centres (March 2007 data),[5] which are also operated as not-for-profit, though not all operations funded by the insurance arm are undertaken here, and the hospitals also undertake some publicly funded operations.[4]

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  1. ^ Healthy profit for Southern Cross - The New Zealand Herald, Thursday 08 September 2005
  2. ^ a b Surgery worries create insurance boom - The New Zealand Herald, Monday 21 January 2008
  3. ^ Health cover under the knife - The New Zealand Herald, Sunday 14 October 2007
  4. ^ a b Private hospitals offer to chip in - The New Zealand Herald, Thursday 20 April 2006
  5. ^ Public sector keeps respectable distance - The New Zealand Herald, Thursday 15 March 2007

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