Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2025–26

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 invite 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. 

ubmissions 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. 

Digital submissions can be emailed to: submissions.ihacpa@ihacpa.gov.au. Preferred file formats include Word, PDF or RTF. If the content has been emailed to IHACPA in an email format, the submission will be reproduced in a Word format for publication. 

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

Handwritten and typed hard copy submissions will be scanned into PDF documents and uploaded to this page. 

If you have further questions about the Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2025–26 or require assistance with the submission process, please contact IHACPA via email at enquiries.ihacpa@ihacpa.gov.au or by phone at +61 2 8215 1100.

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