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Information Asset Detail

National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC)
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 020231 v2
Information Asset
Data Collection
Draft
11-Jun-2019		Current
21-Sep-2021
Standard
Information Management Strategic Governance Committee (IMSGC), Queensland Health
01-Jul-2019
Queensland sourced data for the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) that is supplied to Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA).
NHCDC
Strategic Alignment Attributes
Yes
The NHCDC contains patient level costing data from multiple facilities within each Hospital and Health Service (HHS).
Yes
Costing data is a major input into jurisdictional and national Activity Based Funding (ABF) models.
Yes
It enables cost and profit loss reporting against weighted activity units.
Yes
It underpins annual cost weight tables.
Yes
Yes
Collection and Usage Attributes
To produce the 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 data collection also provides the clinical activity data input into the Public Hospitals Establishment (PHE) collection.
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 nationally by IHPA.
Queensland
Department of Health (Final data).
Multi-level cost weight reports, five-year comparative cost outcome data is provided annually to HHS costing teams and Chief Finance Officers.
Data is updated annually and aligned with the national costing submission to IHPA at the end of February and contains final data for the prior fiscal year.
SENSITIVE
Contact Healthcare Purchasing and Funding Branch.
Contact Healthcare Purchasing and Funding Branch.
Data for the annual Queensland public hospital costing submission is sourced from Queensland Public Hospital and Health Services clinical costing systems.
Reported to IHPA.
Annual.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
SupersedesInformation AssetData CollectionNational Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC)QH 020231 Version 1Superseded
Relates toInformation AssetData CollectionQueensland Health Clinical Costing System (Sunrise Decision Support) Data CollectionQH 020195 Version 2Current
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

No Metadata Items
Included Data Elements and Performance Indicators

Included DE

No Metadata Items
Source and Reference Attributes
Transition II (Sunrise Decision Support), Power Performance Manager, CostPro.
CRDI NHCDC; Costing; Hospital;