Draft IHACPA Work Program and Corporate Plan 2025–26

Everyone with an interest in our work is invited to provide feedback on the activities outlined in the draft plan.

Key activities proposed in the draft plan include: 

• continuing to investigate:
  • options for refining the intensive care unit adjustment
  • alternative methodologies to calculate the Indigenous adjustment
• considering recommendations from the investigation into virtual models of service delivery and care, and associated funding arrangements
• continuing the investigation of organ donation, retrieval and transplantation data collection, costs and pricing arrangements
• implementing the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Australian Classification of Health Interventions and Australian Coding Standards Thirteenth Edition and releasing the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups Version 12.0
• implementing the Emergency Care ICD-10-AM Principal Diagnosis Short List (EPD Short List) Thirteenth Edition
• continuing the multi-stage project to support the development of a new patient level non-admitted care classification
• developing pricing advice to inform Australian Government decisions on the Support at Home Program, and consulting on the development of the Pricing Framework for Australian Support at Home Aged Care Services
• developing advice and recommendations to the Australian Government on funding for residential aged care, such as the funding model for the Multi-Purpose Services Program and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program
• continuing the development of the Australian Aged Care Costing Standards
• releasing the Residential Aged Care Cost Collection 2025 Report, the Residential Aged Care Specialised Services Costing Study Report and the Support at Home Aged Care Cost Data 2025 Report.

How to make a submission

Email your response in Word, PDF or RTF format to submissions.ihacpa@ihacpa.gov.au

Handwritten and typed hard copy submissions can also be mailed to:
Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
PO Box 483
Darlinghurst NSW 1300

Submissions close 11:59pm AEDT Monday 31 March 2025

All submissions will be published on this web page after the close of the consultation period. We won't publish your submission if you ask us not to release it.

We retain, at our absolute discretion, the right not to publish any submissions or part thereof, where it considers it appropriate to do so. We may consider not publishing the whole submission or part of it in some cases. This includes if 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.

If you have questions about the consultation or you would like support to make a submission, email submissions.ihacpa@ihacpa.gov.au or call +61 2 8215 1100.

The final IHACPA Work Program and Corporate Plan 2025–26 will be published in June 2025.