Better health and ageing for all Australians

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Round 9 (2004-05) Cost Report version 5.0

This page contains Round 9 Cost Reports and published national cost weights for public hospitals for AR-DRG version 5.0.

In this section:

Round 9 Cost Report


Published Public National Cost Weights

Published State Cost Weights


Hospital Reference Manual


Peer Group Package


Notes-Round 9 Cost Report

    1. All DRGs that had less than five separations have not been reported in order to protect the identity of the participating hospitals and the confidentiality of patients involved. These DRGs are marked '*******' in the cost weights tables.
    2. If the number of contributing hospitals for a particular DRG is less than three, then that data had been suppressed in order to protect the identity of the participating hospitals. These DRGs are marked '------' in the cost weights tables.
    3. If the number of separations for a particular DRG is less than five and if the number of contributing hospitals for that DRG is less than three, then these DRGs are marked '******' and the 'no of Hosp' cell for the particular DRG is marked '------' in the cost weights tables.

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