May 14 (Reuters) - Australian hospital operator Healthscope Ltd HSO.AX on Monday said it received a A$4.35 billion ($3.3 billion) bid from Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc BAMa.TO , $180 million more than a private equity firm offered it in April.
The A$2.50 per share offer is at a 1.2 percent premium to Healthscope's last close on Friday, and a 23.2 percent premium to its closing price before it received the $3.1 billion offer from BGH Capital and its consortium partners last month. = 1.3247 Australian dollars)