Australian health insurers are much of a muchness, right? Not at all. As a growing not-for-profit health fund, our members and their wellbeing are our sole reasons for being. We aren’t here to improve our share price (because we don’t have one). We simply focus on giving our members great value affordable health insurance. But that’s only part of our unique story.
he HIF story began back in 1954, when our organisation sprang into life as the Western Australian Government Railways Employees Hospital and Medical Benefits Fund Inc (trips off the tongue, doesn’t it?).
One name change and 24 years later, we became Health Insurance Fund of WA, an incorporated association under the Associations Incorporations Act 1895 (WA). Then, in June 2010, we changed our name again to Health Insurance Fund of Australia. We did this to reflect our increasingly nationwide membership base.
We’re a member-focused organisation, providing great value health and travel options. Our philosophy is to give members the freedom to choose when it comes to their healthcare providers.
