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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 will be to provide aged care costing and pricing advice to the Commonwealth Minister for Health and Aged Care.
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...
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...
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Twelfth Edition - Classifying COVID-19 Vaccine Types Education Fact Sheet
This education fact sheet assists in the application of classification codes related to COVID-19 vaccine types using ICD-10-AM and the ACHI Twelfth Edition.
ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS Twelfth Edition - ACS 0002 Additional Diagnoses Fact Sheet
Collecting data is an important part of understanding and improving health services. Admitted patient care data collections capture information on patients, their conditions and the care provided by health services. The conditions documented in the he...
Towards an Aged Care Pricing Framework Consultation Paper 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 pricing for public hospital services. IHACPA is committed to these same principles in developing its age...
AR-DRG Classification Fact Sheet
A summary of how AR-DRG's are used, how they work, the different types of Diagnosis Related Groups, and AR-DRG Version 11.0.
NHCDC Round 24 infographic
The Round 24 National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) collected public hospital cost information for the 2019–20 financial year.