Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards Version 4.2
Date published: 1 September 2023
The Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards (AHPCS) provide direction for costing practitioners to ensure all in-scope costs are allocated to hospital activity to reflect resource utilisation, in a complete and consistent manner.
The AHPCS Version 4.2 has been updated in consultation with jurisdictions to include changes to the definitions of ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ costs, and to distinguish between patient transport costs.
The AHPCS Version 4.2 consists of three components: the Standards, the Business Rules and the Costing Guidelines.
The Standards provide the overarching principles to support and inform each step in the process of patient level and product costing.
| Standards version | Publication date |
| Part 1: Standards - Version 4.2 (Aug 2023) | 1 September 2023 |
The Business Rules provide practical guidance on how a Standard can be translated into action.
| Standards version | Publication date |
| Part 2: Business Rules - Version 4.2 (Aug 2023) | 1 September 2023 |
The Costing Guidelines provide practical consolidated steps to guide costing practitioners on how to cost various services.
| Standards version | Publication date |
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Part 3: Costing Guidelines - Version 4.2 (May 2024) The Costing Guidelines - Version 4.2 (May 2024) has been updated in consultation with jurisdictions to include updates to the CG 12 Contracted Care and CG 8 Non-admitted Patient Care. |
17 May 2024 |
| Part 3: Costing Guidelines - Version 4.2 (Aug 2023) | 1 September 2023 |
The non-admitted care and contracted care updates will be phased over 2 stages: initial implementation over 2024-25 and full implementation over 2025-26