At CBHS we help you manage your health challenges. We believe in offering you the services, support and tools you need to live your best life.
Our Better Living Programs are available to support eligible members towards a healthier lifestyle. Each Better Living Program is subject to its own eligibility criteria.
Contact us for more information and to confirm your eligibility for a program.
Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) loading
Who pays loading?
In general, health funds are required to apply a 2% LHC loading for every financial year to anyone without private hospital cover on 1 July in the year following their 31st birthday. You may avoid the LHC loading in some special circumstances (see below).
This loading is based on your age and doesn’t apply to Extras or Ambulance covers.
To cover small gaps, such as switching from one fund to another, you can go without Hospital cover for a total of 1,094 days (i.e. three years less one day) during your lifetime, without affecting your loading.
If you have a total gap period of 1,095 days – you’ll pay a 2% loading when you re-join private Hospital cover. The loading will increase by 2% for every year after that without cover.
You can only access your Days of Absence if you have held Hospital cover at some point on or after your LHC base day. For most people, your base day is the later of 1 July 2000 or the 1 July after your 31st birthday.
The general circumstances in which you may not be charged the LHC loading include:
- You were overseas on 1 July following your 31st birthday
- You were over 31 and overseas on 1 July 2000
- You are a member of the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) on continuous full-time service and your medical services are provided by or through the ADF
- You hold a Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) Gold Card (the cardholder may be a veteran or the widow/widower and/or dependant of a veteran who is listed on the card).