Privacy Impact Assessment register
Under the Privacy (Australian Government Agencies – Governance) APP Code 2017 (Privacy Code), the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) is required to maintain and publish a register of the Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) it conducts for all high-risk privacy projects.
A project may be a high privacy risk project if IHACPA reasonably considers that the project involves any new or changed ways of handling personal information that are likely to have a significant impact on the privacy of individuals.
IHACPA will incorporate PIAs into the register as they are completed.
| Year | PIA title | Project description | Date completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/2026 | Handling of Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Individual Health Identifier (IHI) data | IHACPA requires the use of both MBS and IHI data in its role in determining; the national efficient price for health care services provided by public hospitals on an activity basis, national efficient cost for health care services provided by public hospitals where services are block funded and advise the Commonwealth, state and territories in relation to funding models for hospitals. | 13 May 2025 |
| 2023/2024 | Aged Care Pricing Information Sharing Project |
IHACPA is currently undertaking residential aged care costing studies as part of its new aged care functions. IHACPA relies on data captured through the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, combined with cost data collected from a sample of providers. This approach helps IHACPA understand the relevant cost drivers within the sector and produce a costed dataset. This dataset will be instrumental in informing future pricing advice. A Supplementary PIA was developed to consider the Multi-Purpose Services Program (MPSP), which provides integrated health and aged care services for older people living in rural and remote communities. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing are undertaking a review of the MPSP current funding model. IHACPA is working with the department to provide specialist pricing and costing advice for services delivered through the MPSP. |
23 May 2024
Supplementary: 13 November 2025 |
| 2024/2025 | Australian Non-Admitted Patient Classification Project (ANAPP) | IHACPA is undertaking the ANAPP to develop a new patient-centred classification for non-admitted patient health services. IHACPA will be collecting data from participating jurisdictions to explore the feasibility of extracting data from existing clinical and information systems to form an activity and cost data set for classification development. |
17 September 2024 Addendum: |
| 2023/2024 | In-home aged care costing studies | IHACPA is undertaking in-home aged care costing studies as part of its new aged care functions. IHACPA has collected cost data from a sample of providers in order to understand the relevant cost drivers within the sector and to produce a costed dataset that can be used to inform future pricing advice. | 20 December 2023 |
| 2021/2022 | National Benchmarking Portal |
The National Benchmarking Portal is a website-based application that provides open access to insights from important datasets collected by IHACPA, serving the interests of transparency to enhance research and policy and to improve patient outcomes. IHACPA reviewed the PIA for the second tranche of the National Benchmarking Portal focusing on building safety and quality dashboards that present insights for hospital acquired complications and avoidable hospital readmissions. |
19 April 2022 Addendum: |
| 2020/2021 | Nil | ||
| 2019/2020 | Nil | ||
| 2018/2019 | Nil |
This register was last reviewed on 19 December 2025.
Requesting a PIA
You can request a copy of a PIA by making a Freedom of Information request.