The National Health Funding Body (NHFB) and the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool (the Pool) were established through the National Health Reform Agreement (NHR Agreement) of August 2011.
The NHFB's primary purpose is to support the obligations and responsibilities of the Administrator through best practice administration of public hospital funding.
The NHFB, led by CEO Shannon White, operates as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013(Opens in a new tab/window) (PGPA) and is funded as a small agency within the Commonwealth Department of Health, Disability and Ageing Portfolio.
The NHFB is an independent agency of 35 staff that support the Administrator to oversee the administration of Commonwealth, State and Territory public hospital funding and payments under the NHR Agreement. To assist the Administrator and achieve their vision of improving the transparency of public hospital funding in Australia, the NHFB works collaboratively across the 4 key functions: Calculate, Pay, Report and Organisation, as outlined in What we do.
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