The latest top five medical claims from Nib show a drop in average values, with all but one sitting well bellow $70,000.
Appearing three times in data for January is spine surgery, the other two are for cancer and cardiac treatments.
Looking at previous ‘top five’ data released by the firm, the set for January is the first time spinal surgery has dominated the list, with previous monthly charts covering mainly cardiac or cancer.
| January 2024 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Spinal surgery | $73,000 | Female | 68 | |||||
| 2. | Cancer | $65,000 | Male | 75 | |||||
| 3. | Spinal Surgery | $64,000 | Female | 51 | |||||
| 4. | Cardiac Surgery | $61,000 | Female | 68 | |||||
| 5. | Spinal surgery | $56,000 | Female | 65 | Total: $319,000 |
Previous health claims data from Nib (not all months have been published by the firm).
| December 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Cancer Treatment | $130,000 | Male | 51 | |||||
| 2. | Cardiac Surgery | $97,000 | Female | 78 | |||||
| 3. | Spinal Surgery | $85,000 | Female | 61 | |||||
| 4. | Cardiac Surgery | $81,000 | Male | 69 | |||||
| 5. | Cardiac Surgery | $78,000 | Male | 61 | Total: $471,000 |
| October 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Cardiac Surgery | $97,000 | Male | 61 | |||||
| 2. | Cardiac Surgery | $81,000 | Male | 75 | |||||
| 3. | Cardiac Surgery | $66,000 | Male | 75 | |||||
| 4. | Cardiac Surgery | $47,000 | Male | 57 | |||||
| 5. | Spinal Surgery | $46,000 | Female | 56 | Total: $337,000 |
| July 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Spinal Surgery | $137,000 | Male | 29 | |||||
| 2. | Cancer Surgery | $92,000 | Male | 70 | |||||
| 3. | Spinal Surgery | $76,000 | Male | 29 | |||||
| 4. | Heart Surgery | $56,000 | Male | 81 | |||||
| 5. | Spinal Surgery | $56,000 | Female | 57 | Total: $417,000 |
| June 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Heart Surgery | $113,000 | Male | 72 | |||||
| 2. | Spinal Surgery | $108,000 | Female | 74 | |||||
| 3. | Cardiac Investigation | $81,000 | Male | 60 | |||||
| 4. | Cancer Treatment | $81,000 | Male | 69 | |||||
| 5. | Heart Surgery | $72,000 | Male | 68 | Total: $455,000 |
| May 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Heart Surgery | $106,978 | Male | 73 | |||||
| 2. | Heart Surgery | $92,596 | Male | 53 | |||||
| 3. | Heart Surgery | $91,581 | Male | 59 | |||||
| 4. | Spinal Surgery | $80,646 | Female | 13 | |||||
| 5. | Heart Surgery | $75,732 | Male | 65 | Total: $447,533 |
| April 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Spinal Surgery | $112,169 | Female | 59 | |||||
| 2. | Heart Surgery | $108,859 | Male | 72 | |||||
| 3. | Cancer Removal Surgery | $83,950 | Female | 88 | |||||
| 4. | Spinal Surgery | $74,482 | Male | 62 | |||||
| 5. | Heart Surgery | $64,405 | Male | 82 | Total: $443,865 |
| March 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Spinal Surgery | $93,782 | Male | 65 | |||||
| 2. | Heart Surgery | $86,520 | Female | 79 | |||||
| 3. | Heart Surgery | $79,608 | Male | 76 | |||||
| 4. | Spinal Surgery | $79,093 | Female | 74 | |||||
| 5. | Spinal Surgery | $77,718 | Female | 70 | Total: $416,721 |
| February 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Heart Surgery | $87,500 | Female | 70 | |||||
| 2. | Heart Surgery | $83,350 | Male | 78 | |||||
| 3. | Heart Surgery | $83,350 | Male | 57 | |||||
| 4. | Spinal Surgery | $57,400 | Female | 69 | |||||
| 5. | Spinal Surgery | $57,178 | Female | 63 | Total: $368,778 |
| January 2023 | Cost | Gender | Age | ||||||
| 1. | Heart Surgery | $69,087 | Male | 75 | |||||
| 2. | Heart Surgery | $67,324 | Male | 77 | |||||
| 3. | Heart Surgery | $66,062 | Female | 73 | |||||
| 4. | Bone Grafting | $60,392 | Male | 43 | |||||
| 5. | Spinal Surgery | $50,017 | Female | 47 | Total: $312,882 |