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Gold Private Hospital and Flex Ancillary

A Gold hospital and extras policy from ACA Health.

  • ACA Health only takes seventh-day Adventist Church employees, Local Church Officers and their families.

Premiums for every state, cover type and excess this policy is sold with, and what it covers, from the statement ACA Health files with the government. Monthly, before the rebate and any Lifetime Health Cover loading.

From

$294.57a month

Single, All states, no excess, before the rebate.

Medicare levy surcharge
Exempts you
Excess options
None
Ambulance
Not covered
Who can join
Restricted

The Private Health Information Statement for this price, on PrivateHealth.gov.au.

Against every other Gold hospital and extras policy in NSW & ACT

Single cover, each policy at its cheapest excess, corporate and restricted policies included.

  1. Gold84 policies$294.573rd cheapest of 84
    $280.00$776.74
This policyEvery other Gold policy

Monthly premium by state and cover type

NSW prices also apply in the ACT. Each price in the tables opens its official Private Health Information Statement on PrivateHealth.gov.au, with a PDF to download.

No excess

StateSingle
All states$294.57

All 38 clinical categories covered in full

  • Covered in full38

Covered 38

  • Assisted reproductive services
  • Back, neck and spine
  • Blood
  • Bone, joint and muscle
  • Brain and nervous system
  • Breast surgery (medically necessary)
  • Cataracts
  • Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy for cancer
  • Dental surgery
  • Diabetes management (excluding insulin pumps)
  • Dialysis for chronic kidney failure
  • Digestive system
  • Ear, nose and throat
  • Eye (not cataracts)
  • Gastrointestinal endoscopy
  • Gynaecology
  • Heart and vascular system
  • Hernia and appendix
  • Hospital psychiatric services
  • Implantation of hearing devices
  • Insulin pumps
  • Joint reconstructions
  • Joint replacements
  • Kidney and bladder
  • Lung and chest
  • Male reproductive system
  • Miscarriage and termination of pregnancy
  • Pain management
  • Pain management with device
  • Palliative care
  • Plastic and reconstructive surgery (medically necessary)
  • Podiatric surgery (provided by a registered podiatric surgeon)
  • Pregnancy and birth
  • Rehabilitation
  • Skin
  • Sleep studies
  • Tonsils, adenoids and grommets
  • Weight loss surgery

Waiting periods

Pre-existing conditions
12 months
Pregnancy and birth
12 months
Psychiatric, rehabilitation and palliative care
2 months
All other hospital treatment
2 months

Excess and other costs

No excess on any version of this policy.

Co-payments: $100 a day in a shared room, $100 a day in a private room, $100 for day surgery.

From the insurer: No co-payments are payable when admitted to a public hospital. For NSW & ACT residents only, Hospital cover includes ambulance cover for emergency (unlimited with no waiting period) and call-out fees (paid for each attendance, including emergency treatment without transport to hospital) in that state or territory only.

Pays towards 8 of 27 standard services

Yearly limits, against the typical policy

  1. General dentalshared with 6 other services
    $650typical policy $800
  2. Optical
    $175typical policy $220
  3. Physiotherapyshared with 6 other services
    $650typical policy $450
This policyTypical policy

What it pays on common claims, against the typical policy

  1. Periodic oral exam (item 012)
    60% of the feetypical policy $35.20
  2. Scale and clean (item 114)
    60% of the feetypical policy $66.85
  3. Single vision lenses and frames
    60% of the feetypical policy $220.00
  4. Physiotherapy, first visit
    60% of the feetypical policy $42.00
This policyTypical policy
ServiceWaiting periodYearly limitExample benefits (all states)
General dental9 months$650shared with 6 other servicesPeriodic oral exam (item 012): 60%Scale and clean (item 114): 60%Fluoride treatment (item 121): 60%
Optical4 months$175Multifocal lenses and frames: 60%Single vision lenses and frames: 60%
Physiotherapy2 months$650shared with 6 other servicesPhysiotherapy, first visit: 60%Physiotherapy, later visit: 60%
Acupuncture2 months$650shared with 6 other servicesAcupuncture, first visit: 60%Acupuncture, later visit: 60%
Chinese herbal medicine2 months$650shared with 6 other servicesChinese herbal medicine, first visit: 60%Chinese herbal medicine, later visit: 60%
Dietetics2 months$650shared with 6 other servicesDietetics, first visit: 60%Dietetics, later visit: 60%
Exercise physiology2 months$650shared with 6 other servicesExercise physiology, first visit: 60%Exercise physiology, later visit: 60%
Vaccinations2 months$650shared with 6 other servicesVaccination: 60%

Not covered: major dental, endodontic (root canals), orthodontics, non-pbs medicines, chiropractic, podiatry, psychology, remedial massage, hearing aids, blood glucose monitors, audiology, antenatal and postnatal, orthoptics, health management programs, home nursing, occupational therapy, orthotics, osteopathy, speech therapy.

Other services: Also excludes Blood glucose monitors, Audiology, Ante-natal/Post-natal classes, Orthoptics, Home nursing, Occupational therapy, Orthotics, Osteopathy, Speech therapy, Vaccinations

Example benefits are what the policy pays for that item at a provider without a special arrangement with the insurer; a percentage is of the fee charged. The typical policy is the middle one of the 708 extras policies on the market that aren't sold only through employers.

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Source: PrivateHealth.gov.au data (Private Health Insurance Ombudsman) via data.gov.au, licensed CC BY 3.0 AU. Normalised by The Finance Algorithm from the extract dated 1 Oct 2026, read on 23 Oct 2026.

Premiums are monthly and shown before the Australian Government rebate and any Lifetime Health Cover loading or age-based discount. Confirm the price and the cover with the insurer before you buy; the official statement for every policy is on PrivateHealth.gov.au. This is general information, not advice, and no insurer pays to be listed or ranked here.