Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2018-19

Closed 17 Aug 2017

Opened 17 Jul 2017

Contact

enquiries.ihacpa@ihacpa.gov.au

Overview

The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) released its Consultation paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2018–19. Public consultation was open from Monday, 17 July 2017 to 5pm Thursday, 17 August 2017.

IHPA’s Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services is revised and published each year. It outlines the principles, scope and methodology adopted by IHPA to determine the National Efficient Price (NEP) and the National Efficient Cost (NEC) Determinations for Australian public hospital services for the specific financial year.

Submissions were forwarded to IHPA in a range of formats including Word, RTF, PDF and handwritten or typed hardcopy. In order to make submissions available as soon as possible, most submissions have been published in their original format. Handwritten submissions have been scanned into PDF documents. If the content has been emailed to IHPA the text of email submissions has been reproduced in Word format.

The consultation paper and received submissions are attached below in the 'Related' section.

Audiences

  • Health professional/clinician work for a Primary Health Network (PHN)
  • Health professional/clinician work for a Local Health Network (LHN) or public hospital
  • Government
  • Research institute, organisation, university, policy institute or consulting group

Interests

  • Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services