Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 6th edition

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:	Classification Scheme
Synonymous names:	ACHI 6th edn
METEOR identifier:	361681
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 22/12/2009
Definition:	The National Centre for Classification in Health classification of health interventions.

Classification structure:	ACHI is comprised of: • Tabular List of Interventions - contains seven character code in the format xxxxx-xx. Generally, the first five characters represent the MBS item number and the last two characters are allocated for each procedural concept derived from the MBS item description. Two appendices are specified: Mapping table; and ACHI codes listed in numerical order. • Alphabetic Index of Interventions - is an alphabetic index to the ACHI Tabular List of Interventions that contains many more procedural terms than those appearing in the ACHI Tabular List.
Source and reference attributes
Origin:	National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) 2007. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Sixth Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney.
Revision status:	ACHI was developed by the National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH). During the development, the NCCH was advised by members of the NCCH Coding Standards Advisory Committee (CSAC) and the Clinical Classification and Coding Groups (CCCG), consisting of expert clinical coders and clinicians nominated by the Clinical Casemix Committee of Australia.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 5th edition Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Has been superseded by Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 7th edition Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
Value Domains based on this classification scheme:	Procedure code (ACHI 6th edn) NNNNN-NN Health, Superseded 22/12/2009