Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Executive summary
  • 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