Publications
Hospital Teaching, Training and Research Activities National Best Endeavours Data Set 2018-19 Technical Specifications for reporting
Teaching, training and research (TTR) activities represent an important role of the public hospital system alongside the provision of care to patients. Until now, there has been no classification system for TTR. To support data collection and classification developme...
IHPA Work Program 2015–16
The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) Work Program has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of section 225 of the National Health Reform Act 2011.
Indigenous Patient Cost Study Report
The purpose of this report is to review the costs of providing care to Indigenous patients accessing public hospital services. This work was commissioned in response to stakeholder concerns that the national activity based funding system does not adequately reflect Indi...
Development of a table of standard costs for conducting clinical trials in Australia
IHPA has developed a robust set of standard costs for the revised List of standard items associated with conducting clinical trials in Australia.
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Ninth Edition
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Ninth Edition was implemented between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2017 for classifying episodes of admitted patient care across Australian hospital services.
AR-DRG Version 8.0
The Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) Version 8.0 was implemented from July 1, 2016 and is the Australian Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) patient classification system that provides a clinically meaningful way of relating the types of patients treated in...
Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2015–16
The 2015-16 Pricing Framework builds on the three previous Pricing Frameworks (2012-13 Pricing Framework, 2013-14 Pricing Framework and 2014-15 Pricing Framework). For simplicity, where the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) has reaffirmed a previous pri...
Australian National Subacute and Non-Acute Patient Classification Version 4.0
The Australian National Subacute and Non-Acute Patient Classification (AN-SNAP) is a casemix classification used for activity based funding, clinical management and other purposes.These documents provide background to the development of AN-SNAP Version 4.0, and exp...
The Australian National Subacute and Non-Acute Patient Classification Version 4.0 – User Manual (April 2015)
This manual describes AN-SNAP V4. Findings from the literature, advice provided in the context of meetings and other consultations with stakeholders and statistical analysis of the available data all fed into the development of AN-SNAP V4.
National Pricing Model Technical Specifications 2015–16
This document provide 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 (NE...