INDEPENDENT health policy analyst Martyn Goddard says successive state governments have deprived Tasmania's health system of more than $1 billion over the last decade.
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Mr Goddard released new analysis on Sunday, which examined the distribution of GST funding state-by-state over the past 10 years.
He said the data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare showed that very little of the GST given to Tasmania by the Commonwealth Grants Commission had been spent on health.
Mr Goddard acknowledged the GST funding was not tied to any particular service but argued it should be spent in the health sector as it was distributed on a needs-basis.
"Over the past decade, that (Commonwealth Grants Commission funding) has added up to $749 million," he said.
"In addition, successive governments have spent at least $654 million over the decade less than the national average.
'Those two measures, when combined, show how much the state has been granted by the GST system for its health needs but which it has diverted for other purposes.
"Although they are breaking no law, the cost of diverting so much money out of health has enormous human and economic costs."
A government spokesman referred to an April press release which pointed at Commonwealth Grants Commission data showing Tasmania spent above the national average on health.
"We will continue to invest as much as we can into frontline health but the simple fact is there isn't a bottomless pit of money and we need to do more with what we've got," Health Minister Michael Ferguson said in the statement.
Data released in September showed that Tasmania has spent less on health per capita every year for the past 10 years, figures disputed by Mr Ferguson.
