Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards Version 1.1

The National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) has been producing national hospital costing results since 1995-96 as a voluntary collection. On 29 November 2008, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to a National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform (the National Partnership) involving $1.383 billion in Commonwealth payments to states and territories to improve efficiency and capacity in public hospitals through four key reform components, one of which is the development of a nationally consistent approach to Activity Based Funding.