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Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 7th edition

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termClassification Scheme
Synonymous names:Help on this termACHI 7th edn
METEOR identifier:Help on this term391343
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
Definition:Help on this term

The National Centre for Classification in Health classification of health interventions.

Classification structure:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) 2010. The Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) – Seventh Edition - Tabular list of interventions and Alphabetic index of interventions. Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney.

ACHI 7th edition is available for purchase from the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority Product Sales web site. Please see the following link for product information
http://ar-drg.laneprint.com.au/.

Revision status:Help on this term

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:Help on this term
Supersedes Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 6th edition
  • Health, Superseded 22/12/2009
Has been superseded by Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 8th edition
  • Health, Superseded 03/12/2014
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 02/09/2016
Value Domains based on this classification scheme:Help on this term

Procedure code (ACHI 7th edn) NNNNN-NN

  • Commonwealth Department of Health, Candidate 16/07/2015
  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016

Indicator procedure code NN

  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016

Elective care type code N

  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013

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