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 prostheses.

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.