National Health Reform Briefings - Questions and Answers
Activity Based Funding and The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
- How will the price of services for low volume/high-cost and high cost patients be determined by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority?
- How will the national efficient price be established, given state and territory governments are at different starting points in developing Activity Based Funding?
- Will services funded under Activity Based Funding be capped or uncapped?
- Will the new and revised procedures to establish the efficient price mean another layer of bureaucracy in the health system?
- How will Activity Based Funding improve the transparency and effectiveness of the health system?
- Will teaching and research continue to be block funded?
- Will the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority have a role in how medicines are supplied and funded in the hospital system?
Performance Reporting – The National Health Performance Authority
Hospitals
- Does the Australian Government have a role in changing the way hospitals work?
- How were Local Hospital Network boundaries determined?
- What consideration was given to the impact of time-based models of care on clinical outcomes?
Working together – Hospitals and GP & Primary Health Care Services
- Will the majority of health services be delivered through Local Hospital Networks or Medicare Locals?
- What incentives for innovation will there be at the local level, in particular in terms of how Local Hospital Networks and Medicare Locals are going to work together to keep people out of hospital?
- How will patients who require specialist care to manage their conditions be better supported with the reforms to the primary health care and hospital sectors?
- Will Lead Clinicians Groups provide advice to Medicare Locals and Local Hospital Networks?
Lead Clinicians Group
- What will Local and National Lead Clinicians Groups do?
- Will Lead Clinicians Groups include only medical doctors?
- Will Lead Clinicians Groups members be paid for their involvement in this initiative?
GP & Primary Health Care
- How will Medicare Locals be funded, in particular in terms of Medicare payments to multi-disciplinary practitioners?
- Will Medicare Locals receive additional funding for multi-disciplinary care?
- How will people living with chronic pain benefit from Medicare Locals?
- How will patients’ access to specialists and chronic disease management services be supported by these reforms?
- How will Medicare Locals be supported to undertake population health planning?
- What is the role of community health and non-government organisations in national health reform?
- What does making the health system more responsive to local needs mean from a consumer point of view?
- How will the health outcomes for homeless people be improved with these reforms?
- How will Medicare Locals work with the new Front End for aged care services?
- Is dental health part of national health reform?
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Stakeholder Engagement
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