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DoH Clinical Costing Submission

Clinical costing is a key initiative by the Department of Health Abu Dhabi, designed to leverage patient-level data to enhance care quality, improve operational efficiency, and build sustainable funding and pricing frameworks for the Emirate’s healthcare system. 

To achieve these objectives, DoH has mandated the submission of clinical costing data by all providers.

The Abu Dhabi Clinical Costing Guideline serves as a vital component of the broader Clinical Costing Standard, ensuring consistency and alignment across the healthcare sector

OBJECTIVES OF CLINICAL COSTING

The objective of clinical costing is to ensure all in-scope costs are systematically allocated to hospital activities to accurately reflect resource utilization in a comprehensive and consistent way

Thorough this clinical costing submission DoH aims to

  • Standardize healthcare costing across entities
  • Improve resource allocation
  • Support policy-making and budgeting
  • Provide transparency across health care providers
  • Ensure compliance with DoH regulations

Scope of submission

This guideline applies to all the healthcare providers listed below, operating in the Emirates of Abu Dhabi under the license provided by the Department of Health

  • Hospitals
  • Specialist day case and day surgery centers
  • Long term care and rehabilitation
  • Stand-alone specialist services (e.g., Dialysis, IVF,
  • Primary care centers
  • Clinics and Others

Exceptions

  • Stand-alone Outpatient Pharmacies
  • Stand-alone Diagnostic Centers (e.g., Laboratory services) that only provide services to other healthcare facilities and not directly to patients.

Key components of submission

  • Direct Costs: Staff, equipment, consumables
  • Overhead Costs: Administration, HR, IT dept cost etc
  • Indirect Costs: Utilities , Non-Patient Products(Eg : Teaching, Training and Research, Car parking, Cafeteria)
  • Cost per Procedure/Service
  • Allocation Methodologies

Expenses to Exclude

  • Balance sheet account items from the costing process
  • Revenue not received, such as rejected claims, volume discounts, or bad debts
  • Revenue from Patient charges, including diagnostic tests performed for other healthcare providers., Grants or subsidies other than funded mandates, Commercial leasing of space, Other Revenue from sales of service.

DOH costing data Submission timeline

Providers were originally required to submit clinical costing data for the 2025 financial year between 1st– 30th May 2026

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