21Mar | Women in MedTech Networking Event - International Women's Day

Macquarie Park, NSW

MTAA invites the MedTech community to celebrate International Women's Day with this special networking event. Join us and hear from our special guest Dr Melina Georgousakis Founder and Director of Franklin Women, as we celebrate under the theme, Count Her In: Invest in Women. Acclerate Progress. The conversation will continue with Q&As and networking afterwards.

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Debunked Device Pricing Claims Are a Distraction from Private Health Affordability

10 August, 2026

The Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) rejects recent reporting in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that recycles previously debunked claims about Australian medical device prices.

Private Health Insurance claims on Medical Device Pricing Debunked

12 September, 2017

Today the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) has released a PwC analysis of the impact of potential price changes to medical devices on the Prostheses List (PL).

This analysis shows a difference between public and private pricing of medical devices of $305.7 million. This is considerably less than the entirely misleading fake claim of $800 million made by the taxpayer subsidised private health insurance industry.

Prostheses Reform update

05 September, 2019

MTAA updates on Prostheses Reform process.

Corporate Insurers' Double Profits on the Back of Covid Misery

02 September, 2021

Cashed up health insurers should immediately pay back to their members hundreds of millions of dollars in windfall gains from the COVID-19 pandemic, after doubling their profits in 2020-21.

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority data on medical devices - Apples & Oranges

12 September, 2017

Today, The Australian carries a story (‘Premium hopes rest on knees, hip’) based on the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) data as part of the Senate Community Affairs Committee inquiry into the Prostheses List (PL) framework.

The Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) is of the view the IHPA data is like comparing ‘apples and oranges’ when it comes to comparing the prices of the same prostheses in the public sector versus the private sector...

Insurers continue to mislead on devices

30 September, 2019

The private health insurance industry’s continued insistence on misleading the public through suggestions that the medical devices industry is somehow ‘driving sales volume’ in response to government reforms is a blatant misrepresentation of how our private healthcare system operates and demonstrates that they are putting profits before the needs of patients.

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Prostheses List Reform Fact Checks

28 Sep 2021
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Reform must be backed by the best data

14 September, 2017

Medical device makers recognise the need for reform of the Prostheses List but it needs to be based on the best data, according to CEO of the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA), Ian Burgess.

Mr Burgess spoke with HealthDispatch in a week during which the MTAA released its own data on prostheses pricing and continues to argue with private health insurers over the extent and nature of reform.

New report highlights value of accessing cataract treatment through the prostheses list

16 October, 2019

MTAA has welcomed the release of a report by Deloitte highlighting the benefits to Australian patients and government of accessing ophthalmic devices through the Prostheses List (PL).