Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2025–26
Date published: 8 May 2024
The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) released its Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2025–26 for public consultation on Wednesday 8 May 2024.
The Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services is revised and published each year. It outlines the policies that underpin the national efficient price and the national efficient cost determinations for the next financial year.
We invited all interested parties to take part in the consultation process. The feedback and comments received will be incorporated into the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2025–26.
Submissions for this consultation closed at 5pm AEST Friday 7 June 2024.
Consultation Paper
Submissions to the consultation paper
Unless respondents specifically request that their submission or parts of their submission should not be released, all submissions will be published on our website after the close of the consultation period.
The agency retains, at its absolute discretion, the right not to publish any submissions or part thereof, where it considers it appropriate to do so. Circumstances in which we may consider not to publish either the whole submission or part thereof, include that the submission:
- may contain information that is commercially sensitive
- is factually contentious – that is, contains data, methodologies or processes that are questionable
- raises individual privacy concerns.
The following formal submissions have been made public.