National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Public Hospitals Report - Round 18 (financial year 2013–14)

NHCDC Data Request Specifications, Round 18 (Financial year 2013-14)

The National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Data Request Specifications (DRS) list the data elements to be submitted to IHPA and include the validation rules which will be applied to the data on submission.

NHCDC Public Hospitals Cost Report, Round 18 (Financial year 2013-14)

Participation

The Round 18, financial year 2013-14, NHCDC includes costs from 447 hospitals, 46 more than in Round 17. Queensland and NSW were the major contributors to this increase with 49 and 14 more hospitals respectively. Tasmania submitted 18 fewer hospitals than in Round 17, these were all small rural hospitals. The increase in hospital participation led to an increase in the proportion of admitted acute activity for which expenditure were submitted by 1.0 percent to 92.3 percent.

Total expenditure

In the Round 18 NHCDC, total expenditure submitted was $33.8 billion, a 6.8 percent increase over Round 17.

Expenditure is split between five streams:

• Admitted acute accounted for 74 percent of total expenditure, reporting $24.8 billion from 352 hospitals. This represents a 6.3 percent increase in expenditure over Round 17, with five fewer hospitals reporting data;
• Emergency Department (ED) expenditure accounted for $4.0 billion from 256 hospitals. This represents a 6.1 percent increase in expenditure over Round 17, with 13 fewer hospitals reporting data;
• Non-Admitted expenditure accounted for $4.5 billion from 349 hospitals. This represents a 13.0 percent increase in expenditure over Round 17, and an increase of 68 hospitals reporting data;
• Subacute expenditure accounted for $2.2 billion from 335 hospitals. This represents a 7.0 percent increase in expenditure over Round 17, with the number of hospitals reporting data unchanged; and
• Other product expenditure accounted for $36.4 million from 195 hospitals. This represents a 33.9 percent decrease in expenditure over Round 17, with 27 more hospitals reporting data.

NHCDC Reporting of work-in-progress, long stay patients and escalation factors, Round 18 (Financial year 2013-14)

The NHCDC Reporting of work-in-progress, long stay patients and escalation factors describes what kind of patients should be reported to IHPA and ones that should not be reported to IHPA however included in your reconciliation and carried forward for the following financial year

NHCDC Independent Financial Review, Round 18 (Financial year 2013-14)

The National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) is the primary data collection that the IHPA relies on to calculate the National Efficient Price used for the funding of public hospital services. To ensure that the quality of NHCDC data is robust and fit-for-purpose, IHPA commissions an independent financial review to assess whether all participating hospitals have included appropriate costs and patient activity.