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National Efficient Cost Determination 2019–20
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) is 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 2019-20 National Efficient Cost Det...
National Pricing Model Technical Specifications 2019–20
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 Price Determination 2019–20
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) is 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) Dete...
IHPA Work Program 2019–20 public consultation paper
ConsultationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) invited all interested parties to provide comment on the draft IHPA Work Program 2019-20.
National Hospital Cost Data Collection, Independent Financial Review, Round 21 (Financial year 2016-17)
PublicationsThe National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) is the primary data collection that the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) relies on to calculate the National Efficient Price used for the funding of public hospital services. To ensure that the quality of N...
National Hospital Cost Data Collection Private Hospital Report 2016–17
PublicationsThe private sector National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) is a voluntary collection that produces a range of hospital cost and activity information by the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG). This report includes the findings from (financial yea...
Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2019–20
PublicationsThe Pricing Framework for Australian public hospital services 2019-20 builds on the seven Pricing Frameworks from previous years. The Pricing Framework is the key strategic document underpinning the National Efficient Price (NEP) and National Efficient Cost (NEC) Determ...
Aged Care Pricing Commissioner Annual Report 2017-18
PublicationsThe Annual Report of the Aged Care Pricing Commissioner covers the Commissioner’s operations for the year 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018 in accordance with Section 95B-12 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
IHPA Annual Report 2017–18
PublicationsIndependent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) Annual Report for financial year 2017–18.
Assessment of new health technologies 2018–19
ConsultationsIHPA's core function is the pricing of public hospital services. IHPA’s Pricing Guidelines recognise that the "pricing of public hospital services should respond in a timely way to the introduction of evidence-based, effective new health technology and innovations in mo...
Consultation Paper on ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Eleventh Edition
ConsultationsOn behalf of Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, the Australian Consortium for Classification Development conducted two rounds of public consultation (14 June to 28 June 2018; 16 August to 30 August 2018) on proposed refinements to the Eleventh Edition of the Intern...
