PHI circular 60/23 – Briefing paper on Prescribed List benefit distribution in Australian private hospitals

To help negotiations of alternative funding arrangements for General Use Items between private hospitals and insurers.

Date published:
PHI circular type:
Hospital announcement
Audience:
Health sector

This paper provides updated data from the first dataset published in August 2021 related to the General Miscellaneous (GM) category of the PL. It also quantifies the revised approach to data collection and analysis from the Hospital Casemix Protocol 1 (HCP1) dataset across the 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years.

This paper aims to help with negotiations of alternative funding arrangements for General Use Items between private hospitals and insurers.