Acronyms and abbreviations

Activity based funding

Australian Classification of Health Interventions

Australian Coding Standards

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (also referred to as ‘the Commission’)

An amount added to, or subtracted from a price weight, in recognition of legitimate and unavoidable variations in the cost of service delivery

Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool

An episode of admitted care is marked by an admission (start) and separation or discharge (end); all three terms are used a unit of count

Adjacent Diagnosis Related Groups

Australian Emergency Care Classification

Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council

Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards

Australian Mental Health Care Classification

Australian Non-Admitted Care Classification

Australian National Subacute and Non-Acute Patient classification

Admitted Patient Care National Minimum Data Set

Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee

Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups

Australian Teaching and Training Classification

Clinical Advisory Committee

COAG Health Council

Council of Australian Governments

Condition Onset Flag

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (also referred to as ACSQHC)

The National Efficient Price Determination or National Efficient Cost Determination

Diagnosis Related Group

Data Request Specification

Data Set Specification

DRG Technical Group

Emergency Care Advisory Working Group

Episode Clinical Complexity (used in AR-DRGs)

Emergency department

General List of In-Scope Public Hospital Services

Hospital acquired complication

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – Tenth Revision – Australian Modification

Intensive care unit

Independent Financial Review of the National Hospital Cost Data Collection

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

ICD Technical Group

Jurisdictional Advisory Committee

Commonwealth, states and territories

Joint Working Party (with the ACSQHC)

Local hospital network

Length-of-stay

Medicare Benefits Schedule

Major Diagnostic Category

Multi-disciplinary case conference, where the patient is not present

Mental Health Information Strategy Steering Committee

Mental Health Working Group

NHCDC Advisory Committee

Non-Admitted Care Advisory Working Group

Non-admitted patient

National Best Endeavours Data Set

National Benchmarking Portal

National efficient cost

National efficient price

National Hospital Cost Data Collection

National Health Funding Body

National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee

National Health Reform Agreement

National Minimum Data Set

National Public Hospital Establishments Database

National Weighted Activity Unit

Pricing Authority

Patient Administration System

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

An ‘episode’ of care at an emergency department  (‘episode’ is not used here as it means admission and discharge in the admitted setting)

Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services

Relative value unit

Stakeholder Advisory Committee

Subacute Care Working Group

Secure Data Management System

An ‘episode’ of non-admitted care (‘episode’ is not used here as it means admission and discharge in the admitted setting)

Technical Advisory Committee

National Health Reform Act 2011

Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services Classification

Teaching, training and research

Teaching, Training and Research Working Group

Urgency Disposition Groups

Urgency Related Groups