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their impact on patient outcomes.

         (b)   Options are consistent with whole-of-system efforts to deliver improved patient health outcomes:

            1. Adjustments complement existing national and state measures to improve patient health outcomes and reduce avoidable hospital demand, including but not limited to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care's goals, national benchmarking, data reporting, and accreditation.

           ii.      The design and implementation of pricing and funding models acknowledges that mechanisms other than pricing and funding have a role in achieving the reform intention and that complementarity of all mechanisms is desirable.

           iii.      The design and implementation of pricing and funding models should not compromise state system financial sustainability and quality and should therefore be focused on system level performance improvement.

         (c)   Options are transparent and comparable:

            1. As far as practicable, the financial levers are designed to ensure there is transparency between the approach and the intended outcome

           ii.      The model uses an appropriate risk adjustment methodology to consider different patient complexity levels or specialisation across jurisdictions and hospitals.

    (iv)             In addition, in relation to performing the activity described in Item 1 of this Schedule, the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority is to have regard to submissions from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the National Health Funding Body, the Commonwealth, states and territories, and other parties deemed relevant by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority.