The Victorian Cost Data Collection (VCDC) provides a comprehensive dataset of patient level cost information across health services in Victoria. The VCDC supports health service planning, policy formulation and public hospital funding under the casemix system.
Victorian public hospitals are required to report costs for all hospital activity, regardless of funding source, and are expected to maintain patient level costing systems that monitor service provision to patients and determine accurate patient-level costs.
Documentation
The VCDC documentation is to assist costing practitioners to identify and attain all the relevant information for costing purposes and reporting requirements for any submission year. It also provides other interested parties with an overview of the structure and content of the collection.
Guidance and business rules
Victorian Activity Based Costing documentation
Victorian Activity Based Costing - Part A: VCDC process, data definition specifications and standard principles
docx 557.27 KB
Victorian Activity Based Costing - Part B: Business rules and Specific costing guidance
docx 3.31 MB
Victorian Activity Based Costing - Part C: Review, reconciliation, and communication
docx 352.43 KB
Resource Categories Derivation
Resource Categories Derivation
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Reference files
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Reference files 2021-22
VCDC Data Definition Specification (DDS) 2021-22xlsx 890.76 KBVCDC Reconciliation Report 2021-22xlsx 100.99 KBVCDC Data Quality Statement 2021-22docx 75.88 KBReference files 2020-21
VCDC Data Definition Specification (DDS) 2020-21xlsx 1006.58 KBVCDC Reconciliation Report 2020-21xlsx 103.73 KBVCDC Data Quality Statement 2020-21docx 94.63 KBReference files 2019-20
VCDC Data Definition Specification (DDS) 2019-20xlsx 751.22 KBVCDC Reconciliation Report 2019-20xlsx 58.62 KBVCDC Data Quality Statement 2019-20docx 97.79 KB
Archive
Please email VCDCassist@health.vic.gov.au to access older documents.
Cost data requests
Requests for costed data, please contact VCDCassist@health.vic.gov.au for a data request form.
Before deciding to request data:
- Make sure what you require is not already publicly available.
- See VAHI Data Request Hub for more information.
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