This document details the administered, departmental and total funding amounts for capped costings included in Appendix C, Table C-1 of the 2019 Post-election report.

This document details the administered, departmental and total funding amounts for capped costings included in Appendix C, Table C-1 of the 2019 Post-election report.

The proposal has three components.

Component 1: The Commonwealth Government would fund 50 per cent of the annual growth in
the efficient cost of activity‐based and block‐funded hospital services on an ongoing basis and
would maintain the activity‐based funding model.

The proposal has three components.

Component 1: The Commonwealth Government would fund 50 per cent of the annual growth in
the efficient cost of activity‐based and block‐funded hospital services on an ongoing basis and
would maintain the activity‐based funding model.

The proposal has three components.

Component 1: The Commonwealth Government would fund 50 per cent of the annual growth in
the efficient cost of activity‐based and block‐funded hospital services on an ongoing basis and
would maintain the activity‐based funding model.

The proposal has three components.

Component 1: The Commonwealth Government would fund 50 per cent of the annual growth in
the efficient cost of activity‐based and block‐funded hospital services on an ongoing basis and
would maintain the activity‐based funding model.

The proposal has three components.

Component 1: The Commonwealth Government would fund 50 per cent of the annual growth in
the efficient cost of activity‐based and block‐funded hospital services on an ongoing basis and
would maintain the activity‐based funding model.

The proposal would provide one‐off payments to the states and territories (the states) to help
eliminate public hospital surgery waiting lists for particular categories of clinical urgency. These
payments would be spread over two years from 1 July 2019, with 80 per cent paid in the first year.

The payment would be based on the number of patients on elective surgery waiting lists who have
been waiting longer than clinically indicated for their category as at 30 June 2019. All patients in
clinical urgency categories 1, 2 and 3 would be eligible.

The proposal would provide one‐off payments to the states and territories (the states) to help
eliminate public hospital surgery waiting lists for particular categories of clinical urgency. These
payments would be spread over two years from 1 July 2019, with 80 per cent paid in the first year.

The payment would be based on the number of patients on elective surgery waiting lists who have
been waiting longer than clinically indicated for their category as at 30 June 2019. All patients in
clinical urgency categories 1, 2 and 3 would be eligible.

The proposal has eight components and would have effect from 1 July 2020.

Component 1: Introduce a new ongoing Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and cancer surgeons to reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients following a cancer diagnosis. The new MBS item would be based on existing MBS item numbers 105 and 116: Professional attendances, whose item descriptions are provided at Attachment A.