Health care

IHACPA’s primary function is to enable activity based funding for Australian public hospital services. Learn more about national pricing frameworks, classification, costing, data collections and protheses.

  • Classification

    Classifications are comprised of codes that provide clinically meaningful ways of relating the types of patients treated by a hospital to the resources required

  • Costing

    Hospital costing focuses on the cost and mix of resources used to deliver patient care

  • Data

    In order for activity based funding to be effective, each patient episode needs to be counted

  • Pricing

    IHACPA's key role is to determine the annual national efficient price (NEP) and national efficient cost (NEC) for Australian public hospital services

  • Products

    A number of classifications products are available to purchase online.

  • Prostheses

    Establishing a benchmark price that is paid for prostheses in the public sector.

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