assessment of the contribution of each component cost to the total, and whether there are disproportional contributions comparisons with prior year results specific hospital product tests (such as cost centre and line item relativities for acute patients, or non-admitted ED average cost relativity by triage category). IHPA provided the jurisdictions with a detailed QA report for each hospital. Critical and warning flags identified areas for correction or further investigation. Jurisdictions were requested to review these reports and confirm the contents, then revisit their data and make further submissions, carrying out the Phase 1 process again. Reconciliation between submitted data and the national database Table 107 summarises the total cost and activity data provided by jurisdictions for the participating sites, and how this flows through the IHPA process to the national database. Table 107: Reconciliation between data submitted and the national dataset The activity adjustments noted in Phase 2 relate to the remapping of UQB costs back to mother encounters, so there is no net impact on total costs, and the UQB encounters are removed from the data. Some sites perform this remapping themselves, such as Canberra Hospital and the NSW sites, however some additional mapping was required where UQB encounters remained in the dataset. Noarlunga Hospital does not deliver babies; it only provides antenatal and early postnatal outpatient services for women delivering their babies at Flinders Medical Centre.
assessment of the contribution of each component cost to the total, and whether there are disproportional contributions comparisons with prior year results specific hospital product tests (such as cost centre and line item relativities for acute patients, or non-admitted ED average cost relativity by triage category). IHPA provided the jurisdictions with a detailed QA report for each hospital. Critical and warning flags identified areas for correction or further investigation. Jurisdictions were requested to review these reports and confirm the contents, then revisit their data and make further submissions, carrying out the Phase 1 process again. Reconciliation between submitted data and the national database Table 107 summarises the total cost and activity data provided by jurisdictions for the participating sites, and how this flows through the IHPA process to the national database. Table 107: Reconciliation between data submitted and the national dataset The activity adjustments noted in Phase 2 relate to the remapping of UQB costs back to mother encounters, so there is no net impact on total costs, and the UQB encounters are removed from the data. Some sites perform this remapping themselves, such as Canberra Hospital and the NSW sites, however some additional mapping was required where UQB encounters remained in the dataset. Noarlunga Hospital does not deliver babies; it only provides antenatal and early postnatal outpatient services for women delivering their babies at Flinders Medical Centre.