Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) Twelfth edition

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Classification Scheme
Synonymous names:	ACHI Twelfth edition; ACHI 12th edn
METEOR identifier:	746653
Registration status:	Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 17/10/2023
Definition:	Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) classifies surgical operations, procedures and other types of interventions performed for the purpose of investigating and/or remedying health state.
Classification structure:	ACHI is comprised of: • Tabular List of Interventions - contains a seven character code, in the format NNNNN-NN. Generally, the first five characters represent the Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) item number and the last two characters are allocated for each procedural concept derived from the MBS item description. • Alphabetic Index of Interventions - 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
Submitting organisation:	Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
Origin:	IHPA (Independent Hospital Pricing Authority) 2022. Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI). Sydney: IHPA.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 11th edition Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 See also Intended procedure code NNN Health, Standard 20/10/2022
Value Domains based on this classification scheme:	Intervention code (ACHI Twelfth edition) NNNNN-NN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 17/10/2023

Classification Scheme Attributes