Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
IHPA
15 December 2011 – 12 August 2022
Renamed Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority in 2022.
Independent statutory authority that determined the national efficient price and national efficient cost used for activity-based Commonwealth funding of public hospital services, and developed hospital classifications and costing standards.
Names over time
- Independent Hospital Pricing Authority2011–2022
- Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority2022–present
How it came into existence
Established in December 2011 under the National Health Reform Act 2011, as amended by the National Health Reform Amendment (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) Act 2011, to implement activity-based funding under the 2011 National Health Reform Agreement. It took over hospital classification and costing work previously managed by the Department of Health and Ageing.
- Admitted patient classification development
- National Hospital Cost Data Collection
Classification and costing work was taken over from the department progressively after 2011.
Legislation: National Health Reform Act 2011
Changes during its life
- 18 September 2013Moved to the Health portfolio when the Department of Health and Ageing became the Department of Health.
- 1 July 2022Moved to the Health and Aged Care portfolio when the Department of Health became the Department of Health and Aged Care.
How it ended
Renamed the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority on 12 August 2022, when legislation responding to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety added aged care costing and pricing advice to its functions.
Main functions
- Determining the national efficient price for public hospital services
- Determining the national efficient cost for block-funded hospitals
- Developing hospital activity classifications
- National Hospital Cost Data Collection
- Advice on public hospital funding and cost-shifting disputes
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of Health and Aged Care.
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to 25 July 2022)
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