Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I accept that IHACPA, before it became IHACPA, when it was the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, had a great deal of maturity in its statistics that it was providing. I commend the independent pricing authority for what it has achieved, in terms of setting national efficient prices in the hospital setting, but it has been very recent that it has become IHACPA and included aged care in that determination. So we're talking about a reasonably immature data set here. The first lot of data that came from IHACPA, in terms of pricing, was only based on about four per cent of the market being tested in terms of developing that pricing. I'm interested to understand, in the current determination that IHACPA is undertaking, is there a requirement for a certain percentage of the market to actually be tested in determining those prices?