Resources
Emergency Care Principal Diagnosis Selection Guide Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsA principal diagnosis is the diagnosis established at the conclusion of the patient’s attendance in an emergency department (ED) to be mainly responsible for occasioning the attendance following consideration of clinical assessment.
Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services - Consultation video
VideosIHACPA's annual consultation on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services is your chance to have a say in the future of aged care pricing advice.
Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2024–25 Communication Toolkit
ToolsThis Communication Toolkit has been developed for aged care providers and stakeholders by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA).
Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2024–25 Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsThe Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) relies on a consultative, transparent and evidence-based approach in the development of its aged care costing and pricing advice.
General Use Items Bundling Tool
ToolsThe General Use Items (GUI) Bundling Tool enables users to enter historical Prostheses List billing-code utilisation data and apply the GUI bundles defined in IHACPA’s Supplementary advice on Bundling Arrangements for General Use Items on the Prostheses List – April 20...
MHPoC Education and Meeting Guides
Fact sheetsThe meeting guide suggests clinician validated ways to bring a routine consideration of MHPoC into multi-disciplinary team meetings. The education guide promotes simple and effective ways to run education on Mental Health Phase of Care (MHPoC) within teams. The...
AMHCC and MHPoC Information Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsThis fact sheet provides an overview of the Australian Mental Health Care Classification (AMHCC) and Mental Health Phase of Care (MHPoC). It includes a definition of each MHPoC and highlights that Assessment Only changed from a MHPoC to become an administrative...
MHPoC Application to Practice
VideosThis video focuses on the application of the Mental Health Phase of Care (MHPoC) in clinical practice. This video has been filmed with several clinicians discussing their own experiences with MHPoC, discussing local application of MHPoC and clinical benefits. This re...
An Overview of AMHCC and MHPoC
VideosThis video is a short introduction to the Australian Mental Health Care Classification (AMHCC) and Mental Health Phase of Care (MHPoC) It aims to increase clinician awareness and effective use of the MHPoC. This video is for clinicians, consumers, families and carers...
Australian Mental Health Care Classification Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsThe Australian Mental Health Care Classification (AMHCC) was developed to provide more accurate and consistent data about the services provided across different mental healthcare settings.
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Twelfth Edition - Social Factors in Admitted Patient Care Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsThe circumstances in which people grow, live, work and age may influence the likelihood of experiencing disease or injury, and their interactions with health services. These circumstances are referred to as social determinants of health, socioeconomic and psyc...
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS - Classifying Disease and Health Interventions Fact Sheet
Fact sheetsThe classification of diseases and interventions is performed by clinical coders and health information managers in health services across Australia for the purpose of collecting information on morbidity.