AR-DRG
AR-DRG Version 11.0
PublicationsThe Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRGs) is a classification that provides a clinically meaningful way to relate or group the number and type of patients treated in admitted acute episodes of care to the resources required in treatment. AR-DRG...
AR-DRG Classification Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsA summary of how AR-DRG's are used, how they work, the different types of Diagnosis Related Groups, and AR-DRG Version 11.0.
Consultation and review of the AR-DRG and ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Classification Systems
ConsultationsThe development cycle of the admitted care classifications was last reviewed in 2009. Since that time the landscape has changed significantly with the National Health Reform Agreement in 2011 and the introduction of activity based funding nationally. The recent review f...
AR-DRG Version 10.0
PublicationsThe Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRGs) is a classification system, which provides a clinically meaningful way to relate the number and type of patients treated in a hospital to the resources required by the hospital. AR-DRGs group patients with s...
AR-DRG Version 9.0
PublicationsThe Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) Version 9.0 was implemented from 1 July 2018 and is the Australian Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) patient classification system that provides a clinically meaningful way of relating the types of patients treated in...
Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups Version 6.x Addendum
PublicationsThe Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) is committed to providing the Australian health care industry with a nationally consistent method of classifying all types of patients, their treatment and associated costs. Consequently, resources continue to be devoted...
Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) v7.0 (short and long description)
PublicationsThis resource shows the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) v7.0 (short and long description).
AR-DRG Version 8.0
PublicationsThe Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) Version 8.0 was implemented from July 1, 2016 and is the Australian Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) patient classification system that provides a clinically meaningful way of relating the types of patients treated in...
Development of the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups V8.0
PublicationsAs per the contract for Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) Classification System Development and Refinement Services between the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) and the University of Sydney...
Review of the AR-DRG Case Complexity Process
PublicationsThis report presents the results of phase one of the project to develop Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG)1 Version (V) 8.0. This phase focuses on the case complexity component of the classification that has not been reviewed for many years.