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Information Asset Detail

National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC)
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 020231 v1
Information Asset
Data Collection
Current
25-Jul-2017		Superseded
10-Jun-2019
Documented
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01-Jul-2010
30-Jun-2019
NHCDC
Strategic Alignment Attributes
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Collection and Usage Attributes
To produce the national public and private sector cost weights for Australian Refined Diagnosis related group (AR-DRG), Sub-acute and Non admitted groups (SNAP), Urgency Related Groups (URG) and Tier 2 (Outpatients) Non admitted benchmark reporting.

The costs from this collection form the base source data for the calculation of the National Efficient Price (NEP) for activity funded ABF Hospitals and the National Efficient Cost (NEC) for block funded ABF Hospitals as agreed between the State of Queensland and the Commonwealth.
The NHCDC is based on the principles of casemix costing analysis. Casemix is a scientific approach to the classification of patient care episodes using resource homogenous grouping based on coding of diagnosis and procedures for acute care (AR-DRG classification), formal patient evaluation and scoring against defined clinical patient evaluation tools for subacute care (SNAP Classification), diagnosis, triage category and discharge disposition for emergency presentations (URG Classification), and mapping of clinics by provider and clinical speciality (Tier 2 classification).

As a patient centric data collection other measures associated with the individual patient or classification group can be compared for the purposes of analysis, such as resource usage and cost, clinical utilisation patterns, cost profiles, quality outcome indicators, co-morbid conditions and other standard definitions like average length of stay, age, ethnicity, remoteness and sex.

The national standardisation of the data elements in the NHCDC, underpinned by the Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards allows for the comparison of cost and patient outcome data between jurisdictions and against national average values. The collection is managed by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA).
Queensland
Department of Health (Final data)
In previous years Queensland Health has published cost reports that incorporate Peer Group costs. The Casemix Funding Model no longer utilises Peer Groups, therefore the costs published by the NHCDC are the ones in current use throughout Queensland Health for reference and to inform funding decisions.
Data is updated annually aligned with the national costing submission to IHPA at the end of February and contains final data for the prior fiscal year.
IN-CONFIDENCE
Data for the annual Queensland public hospital costing submission is sourced from Queensland Public Hospital and Health Services clinical costing systems.
Annual
Relational Attributes
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Has been superseded byInformation AssetData CollectionNational Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC)QH 020231 Version 2Current
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Source and Reference Attributes
CRDI NHCDC; Costing; Hospital;