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During 2009-10, 88.1% of patient separations from Acute and psychiatric hospitals carried hospital insurance. This proportion was a slight increase on the 87.6% of insured patients in 2008-09. There were over 2.4 million separations for insured patients in 2009-10, compared to approximately 286,000 non-insured patients.