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Table 12A.62<br />
Table 12A.62<br />
Average cost to government (recurrent) per treated patient in the<br />
community Australia (2006-07 dollars) (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g)<br />
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07<br />
Unit cost (dollars per treated patient in the<br />
community)<br />
1 347.92 1 517.75 1 960.80 1 901.72 2 308.19<br />
Percent of services not reporting 16.6 17.7 14.5 8.4 4.7<br />
Expenditure covered by non reporting<br />
services (per cent)<br />
11.9 5.9 4.8 1.8 1.0<br />
(a) The above data and derived indicators have significant data quality problems and are presented for<br />
demonstration purposes <strong>only</strong>, which is aimed at improving the quality of information reported in future<br />
years. The data and indicators are not of sufficient quality to be used for any form of comparative<br />
analysis of the performance of State and Territory jurisdictions. Future work will focus on improving<br />
data on service outputs and outcomes to support a range of analyses.<br />
(b) The absence of unique patient identifiers in many jurisdictions means that clients who happen to attend<br />
mental health services other than their usual service may be counted twice. This double counting may<br />
artificially reduce average costs in some states or territories. Victoria, WA, the ACT and the NT have<br />
statewide systems of unique identifiers, so the extent of overcounting of patients in these states is<br />
relatively lower than in other jurisdictions. Differences across jurisdictions in the complexity of cases<br />
treated, the service options available for treatment and admission practices also reduce comparability<br />
of data between states and territories. In addition, cost components such as depreciation are not<br />
measured consistently across jurisdictions.<br />
(c) Depreciation is excluded as it is variably handled by jurisdictions.<br />
(d) Unit costs not casemix adjusted.<br />
(e) Constant price expenditure expressed in 2006-07 prices using the State and Territory implicit price<br />
deflators for general government final consumption expenditure on hospital clinical services (table<br />
12A.69).<br />
(f) See the National Mental Health Report 2007 for a full description of data sources and analysis.<br />
(g) Calculation of average unit costs excludes those services with missing patient data.<br />
Source : AIHW (unpublished), derived from the MHE NMDS ; State and Territory governments<br />
(unpublished).<br />
REPORT ON<br />
GOVERNMENT<br />
SERVICES 2009<br />
HEALTH<br />
MANAGEMENT<br />
ISSUES