Nhcdc round 19 Independent Financial Review

The IHPA NHCDC Process

The NHCDC is an important cost data collection used as the main data set to inform the National Efficient Price (NEP). It also provides valuable cost data information to enable benchmarking across the sector, such as the newly developed cost-benchmarking portal. IHPA undertakes a number of processes on the submitted NHCDC data before it is considered fit-for-purpose as the NHCDC dataset. The processes are conducted by discrete functions and each of these functions has flow charts and documents describing the separate processes. However, there is no documentation detailing the end-to-end IHPA process from NHCDC submission by hospitals/jurisdictions to the finalisation of the NHCDC dataset. It is noted that IHPA is re-developing the collection portal to increase transparency, which will include the development of end-to-end NHCDC process documentation.

Recommendation

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It is recommended that end-to-end NHCDC process documentation be developed to enhance transparency of the IHPA process, maintain efficiency of process during staff absence and to ensure organisational knowledge is not lost when key staff members depart the organisation. The end-to-end process documentation will provide each stakeholder (including IHPA employees) with an understanding of IHPA’s NHCDC processes.

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Acronyms/Abbreviations

Acronym / Abbreviation	Description
ABF	Activity Based Funding
ACT	Australian Capital Territory
AHPCS	Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards
AHS	Area Health Service
APC	Admitted Patient Care
BI	Business Intelligence
CAG	Cost Accounting Guidelines
CCU	Coronary Care Unit
DNR	District and Network Return
DRG	Diagnosis Related Group
DRS	Data Request Specifications
DSS	Decision Support System
ED	Emergency department
EDW	Enterprise Data Warehouse
ETL	Extract, Transform and Load
FMS	Financial Management System
GL	General ledger
HDU	High Dependency Unit
HHS	Hospital and Health Service
HIE	Health Information Exchange
ICT	Information and Communications Technology
ICU	Intensive Care Unit
IFR	Independent Financial Review
IHPA	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
LHD	Local Health District
LHN	Local Health Network
MBS	Medical Benefits Scheme
NAC	NHCDC Advisory Committee
NALHN	Northern Adelaide Local Health Network
NAP	Non Admitted Patient
NEP	National Efficient Price
NHCDC	National Hospital Cost Data Collection
NHR	National Health Reform
NICU	Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NSW	New South Wales
NSW Health	NSW Ministry of Health
NT	Northern Territory
PAS	Patient Administration System
PFRAC	Product fractions
PPM2	Power Performance Manager 2
QA	Quality assurance
QLD	Queensland
RVU	Relative Value Unit
SA	South Australia
SA Health	South Australian Department of Health and Ageing
TAS-DHHS	Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services
TTR	Teaching, Training and Research
UDG	Urgency Diagnosis Group
UQB	Unqualified baby
URG	Urgency Related Group
VAED	Victorian Admitted Episodes Data
VCCUG	Victorian Clinical Costing User Group
VCDC	Victorian Cost Data Collection
VEMD	Victorian Emergency Episodes Data
VIC Health	Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
VINAH	Victorian Integrated Non-Admitted Data Set
VMO	Visiting Medical Officer
VPG	Virtual Patient Group
WA	Western Australia
WA Health	WA Department of Health
WACHS	Western Australia Country Health Service
WIP	Work-In-Progress