Our primary functions
- calculating and advising the Commonwealth Treasurer of the Commonwealth’s contribution to public hospital funding in each State and Territory
- reconciling estimated and actual public hospital services, and adjusting Commonwealth payments
- undertaking funding integrity analysis to identify public hospital services that potentially received funding through other Commonwealth programs
- monitoring payments of Commonwealth, State and Territory public hospital funding into the National Health Funding Pool (the Pool)
- making payments from the Pool to each Local Hospital Network (LHN)
- reporting publicly on funding, payments and services
- developing and providing three year data plans to the Commonwealth, States and Territories
- supporting additional funding streams to be transacted through the Pool.
To assist the Administrator and achieve our vision of improving the transparency of public hospital funding in Australia, we work collaboratively across four key functions outlined below:
Calculate
- Calculate funding and issue payment advice
- Data collection and analysis
- Reconcile actual activity
- Funding integrity
To learn more about how we Calculate, click here.
Pay
- Payments System administration
- Timely payments and bank reconciliations
- End of month processing
- National Health Funding Pool financial statements
To learn more about how we Pay, click here.
Report
- Funding, payment and activity reporting
- Data plan and compliance reporting
- Website
- Trend analysis and reporting
To learn more about how we Report, click here.
Organisation
- Corporate planning
- Organisational performance
- Leadership and culture
- Risk management, assurance and governance
To learn more about our corporate governance, click here.