Resources

IHACPA's Role in Aged Care Pricing Fact Sheet
The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority's (IHACPA) role within the aged care sector is to provide annual aged care costing and pricing advice to the Australian Minister for Health and Aged Care. It is the Minister for Health and Aged Care who is responsib...

Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services - Consultation video
IHACPA'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.

Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2024–25 Fact Sheet
The 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.
National Benchmarking Portal
The National Benchmarking Portal (NBP) is a website-based application that provides public access to insights from data collected by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA).

MHPoC Education and Meeting Guides
The 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
The 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
The 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
The 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.

ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS - Development of Twelfth Edition Fact Sheet
Health classifications are used to provide a nationally consistent method of reporting conditions (including diseases, injuries, symptoms and related health problems) and the treatments (including surgeries, therapies and health interventions) of admitted pati...