Program · Outcome 1: Support public hospitals and aged care services to improve efficiency in, and access to, services through the provision of independent pricing determinations and advice and designing pricing systems that promote sustainable and high-quality care
Program 1.1: Development of Pricing Advice and Annual Determinations
IHACPA promotes improved efficiency in, and access to, public hospital and aged care services by providing independent advice to the Australian Government and state and territory governments regarding pricing of health and aged care services, and by developing and implementing robust systems to support activity-based funding or alternative funding approaches for these services.
Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 11 reported
−$280k (−1.1%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
A further $44m is listed for this program but not counted, because it is counted elsewhere or is not an expense. Each line below says why.
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amounts from related entities | corporate | $55m | $44m | −$11m −19.7% | not counted: funding already counted at the paying department | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 722 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | corporate | $21m | $22m | +$196k +0.9% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 724 |
| Income from other sources | corporate | $3.8m | $3.5m | −$300k −8.0% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 723 |
| Operating deficit (surplus) | corporate | $256k | $80k | −$176k −68.8% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 725 |