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released: 1 Dec 2009 media release

This report provides information on sources of funding for the provision of care to admitted patients in Australian hospitals in 2005-06. The report compares funding for privately insured and public patients in public and private hospitals and, in particular, compares the Australian Government contributions for these patients. The Australian Government's average contribution per episode for public patients was $1,367 for the subset of AR-DRGs used in the analysis, compared to the average contribution for privately insured patients in private hospitals of $1,364 per episode.

ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 873 0; Cat. no. HWE 44; INTERNET ONLY

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Executive summary (HTML)
  • Body section
    1. Introduction and scope
      • Introduction
      • Scope
        • Funding of public and privately insured admitted patients
        • Pharmaceuticals
      • Care provided by public and private hospitals
    2. Methods
      • Data sources
        • Completeness and representativeness of the HCP data
      • Method
    3. Overview of insured episodes of admitted patient care
    4. Comparing Australian Government funding for public patients and privately insured patients
      • Age groups
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Supplementary analysis of net medical expenses tax offset
      2. Adjacent DRGs with high proportions of care provided by public or private hospitals
        • Public hospitals
        • Private hospitals
      3. Methodological details
        • Data sources
          • Hospital Casemix Protocol data set
          • AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database
          • AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Costing Model
          • Private Health Insurance Administration Council data set
        • Methods
      4. HCP data set
        • Processing of the data
        • Completeness and representativeness
          • Comparison with PHIAC data
          • Comparison with the National Hospital Morbidity Database
      5. Error and low volume AR-DRGS
      6. Average length of stay (ALOS) differences between HCP and the NHMD
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2009. Funding sources for admitted patients in Australian hospitals, 2005-06. Cat. no. HWE 44. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 13 January 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442468306>.