Fee for Incidentals
Your clinical care is our top priority while you are in our hospital. The quality of your stay is also important to us and an important part of our commitment to you. The following information outlines an additional fee of $25 that may apply in some of our hospitals to cover incidentals, referred to as ‘Fee for Incidentals’.
This fee relates to the cost of providing you and your visitors with access to Foxtel and high-speed wireless internet for the length of your stay at the hospital. The fee has not been increased since its inception in March 2009.
Overnight Patient
As a part of your overnight admission, the $25 Fee for Incidental charged may apply:
Privately Insured Patients
Private Health Insurers may cover all or part of this fee. If the Private Health Insurer does cover the entire fee, you will not be charged. Please check with your Private Health Insurer prior to admission.
Repatriation (DVA) & WorkCover Patients
This fee does not apply to DVA or WorkCover patients.
Third Party, Overseas and Self-insured Patients
Please check with the hospital before or at the time of your admission if this fee applies.
Same Day Patient
The $25 ‘Fee for Incidentals’ does not apply to same day admissions.
WiFi
Patients receive access to WiFi during their hospital admission and can login by using their Medical Record Number (MRN). A patient receives a download limit of 10GB per day (max 3 devices). This data limit will refresh at midnight on the day of login.
A visitor will login using the ‘Guest’ option and will receive a download limit of 500mb per day (max 1 device). This data limit will refresh at midnight on the day of login.