Our key activities
In 2026–27, our key activities will support the Administrator in carrying out functions under the NHR Act(Opens in a new tab/window) and the Addendum, including:
Calculating and advising
- Calculating and advising the Commonwealth Treasurer of the Commonwealth’s contribution to public hospital funding in each State and Territory under the new National Funding Model, including the ICR glide path and new funding cap methodology
- Calculating MFG entitlements for each State annually.
Reconciling and adjusting
- Reconciling estimated and actual public hospital services, and adjusting Commonwealth payments accordingly, in accordance with the Annual Reconciliation process.
Ensuring funding integrity
- Undertaking funding integrity analysis to identify public hospital services potentially funded through more than one Commonwealth program.
Paying
- Monitoring payments of Commonwealth, State and Territory public hospital funding into the Pool
- Making payments from the Pool to each LHN.
Reporting
- Reporting publicly on funding flows, LHN service volumes, Commonwealth and State funding into and from Pool accounts
- Publishing and maintaining the Administrator’s rolling Three-Year Data Plan.
Coordinating with national bodies and supporting reform development
- Coordinating planning with IHACPA, ACSQHC and AIHW to ensure integrated effort on shared priorities
- Supporting IHACPA to develop a Funding Models Framework
- Developing operational processes for the new SMRF stream, which will provide dedicated Commonwealth investment for States to trial new approaches to hospital funding and care delivery (commencing 2027–28)
- Working with IHACPA to report on private patient neutrality methodology
- Supporting ACSQHC to review safety and quality measures.
These key activities align to our key deliverables linked below. We work together across these functions to assist the Administrator and achieve our vision of improving the transparency of public hospital funding in Australia.
