Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority Clinical Advisory Committee

The Clinical Advisory Committee (CAC) provides advice to the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) on the implementation of Activity Based Funding for hospital services and clinical matters relating to the development of aged care pricing advice, including classification development and refinement, data collection, policy development and pricing. The Clinical Advisory Committee has the following functions: (a) to advise the Pricing Authority in relation to developing and specifying classification systems for health care and other services provided by public hospitals; (b) to advise the Pricing Authority in relation to matters that: (i) relate to the public hospital functions of the Pricing Authority; and (ii) are referred to the Clinical Advisory Committee by the Pricing Authority; (c) to do anything incidental to or conducive to the performance of the above functions