Publications
National Efficient Price Determination 2017–18
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) was established under the National Health Reform Act 2011 (Cth) (the Act), and by virtue of Section 131(1) of the Act is invested with the following functions relevant to this National Efficient Price (NEP)&nbs...
National Pricing Model Technical Specifications 2017–18
PublicationsThis document provides the technical specifications for how the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) developed the Activity Based Funding (ABF) models for the service streams to be funded for the National Efficient Price (NEP) and the National Efficient Cost (N...
National Efficient Cost Determination 2017–18
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (Pricing Authority) was established under the National Health Reform Act 2011 (Cwlth) (the Act), and by virtue of section 131(1) of the Act is invested with the following functions relevant to this 2017-18&n...
NHCDC Independent Financial Review 2014-15
PublicationsThe National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) is the primary data collection that the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) relies on to calculate the national efficient price used for the funding of public hospital services. To ensure that th...
National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Public Sector Report 2014–15
PublicationsThis National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Public Sector Report includes the results of participation across the various jurisdictions. The report investigates questions relating to hospital costs for admitted, non-admitted and emergency department services. Th...
Private Patient Public Hospital Service Utilisation 2017
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) engaged Ernst & Young (EY) to examine trends in the number of privately insured patients being treated in public hospitals and to identify factors contributing to observed trends to assess what impact, if any, the na...
Aged Care Pricing Commissioner Annual Report 2015-16
PublicationsThe Annual Report of the Aged Care Pricing Commissioner covers the Commissioner’s operations for the year 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 in accordance with Section 95B-12 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
IHPA Annual Report 2015–16
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) Annual Report for financial year 2015–16.
Teaching, Training and Research Costing Study Final Report July 2016
PublicationsThe purpose of this costing study was to undertake a Teaching, Training and Research (TTR) cost and activity data collection at a representative sample of Australian hospitals and produce costed data to inform the development of a TTR classification.
Emergency Care Clinician Time Consensus Study Report
PublicationsThe Emergency Care Clinician Time Consensus Study (the consensus study) was designed to complement the first component of the Emergency Care Costing and Classification Project - the Emergency Care Costing Study (the costing study).The costing study set out to colle...