The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) has appointed consultants Health Policy Solutions, in association with Casemix Consulting and Aspex Consulting, to develop a comprehensive Pricing Framework that will be used in the implementation of activity based funding (ABF) for Australian public hospitals from 1 July 2012.
This report is a brief summary of the Draft Pricing Framework paper. APHA is doing a detailed analysis of the Section that is of most potential relevance to our sector – that is, Section 8, “Pricing private patients in public hospitals”. The APHA’s Policy and Advocacy Taskforce will discuss this response at its meeting on Wednesday, 15 February. In the meantime, any comments/concerns about the issues outlined in the Draft Pricing Framework, can be sent directly to APHA’s Manager of Research and Data, Mehrdad Khodai-Joopari at Mehrdad.Khodai@apha.org.au.
The report can be found: http://www.apha.org.au/advocacy/submissions/
