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Acronyms and abbreviations
ABF |
Activity Based Funding |
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ACHI |
Australian Classification of Health Interventions |
ACS |
Australian Coding Standards |
ACSQHC |
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (also referred to as ‘The Commission’) |
Adjustment |
An amount added to, or subtracted from a Price Weight, in recognition of legitimate and unavoidable variations in the cost of service delivery |
Administrator |
Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool |
Admission/separation/episode |
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 |
ADRG |
Adjacent Diagnosis Related Groups |
AECC |
Australian Emergency Care Classification |
AHMAC |
Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council |
AHPCS |
Australian Hospital Patient Costing Standards |
AMHCC |
Australian Mental Health Care Classification |
ANACC |
Australian Non-Admitted Care Classification |
AN-SNAP |
Australian National Subacute and Non-Acute Patient classification |
APC/APC NMDS |
Admitted Patient Care National Minimum Data Set |
ARC Committee |
Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee |
AR-DRG |
Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups |
ATTC |
Australian Teaching and Training Classification |
CAC |
Clinical Advisory Committee |
CHC |
COAG Health Council |
COAG |
Council of Australian Governments |
COF |
Condition Onset Flag |
Commission |
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (also referred to as ACSQHC) |
Determination |
The National Efficient Price Determination or National Efficient Cost Determination |
DRG |
Diagnosis Related Group |
DRS |
Data Request Specification |
DSS |
Data Set Specification |
DTG |
DRG Technical Group |
ECAWG |
Emergency Care Advisory Working Group |
ECC |
Episode Clinical Complexity (used in AR-DRGs) |
ED |
Emergency Department |
General List |
General List of In-Scope Public Hospital Services |
HAC |
Hospital Acquired Complication |
ICD-10-AM |
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – Tenth Revision – Australian Modification |
ICU |
Intensive Care Unit |
IFR |
Independent Financial Review of the NHCDC |
IHPA |
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority |
ITG |
ICD Technical Group |
JAC |
Jurisdictional Advisory Committee |
Jurisdictions |
Commonwealth, states and territories |
JWP |
Joint Working Party (with the ACSQHC) |
LHN |
Local Hospital Network |
LOS |
Length of Stay |
MBS |
Medicare Benefits Schedule |
MDC |
Major Diagnostic Category |
MDCC |
Multi-Disciplinary Case Conference where the patient is not present |
MHISSC |
Mental Health Information Strategy Steering Committee |
MHWG |
Mental Health Working Group |
NAC |
NHCDC Advisory Committee |
NACAWG |
Non-Admitted Care Advisory Working Group |
NAP |
Non Admitted Patient |
NBEDS |
National Best Endeavours Data Set |
NBP |
National Benchmarking Portal |
NEC |
National Efficient Cost |
NEP |
National Efficient Price |
NHCDC |
National Hospital Cost Data Collection |
NHFB |
National Health Funding Body |
NHISSC |
National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
NHRA |
National Health Reform Agreement |
NMDS |
National Minimum Data Set |
NPHED |
National Public Hospital Establishments Database |
NWAU |
National Weighted Activity Unit |
PA |
Pricing Authority |
PAS |
Patient Administration System |
PBS |
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
PGPA Act |
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 |
Presentation |
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 |
Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services |
RVU |
Relative Value Unit |
SAC |
Stakeholder Advisory Committee |
SCWG |
Subacute Care Working Group |
SDMS |
Secure Data Management System |
Service event |
An ‘episode’ of non-admitted care (‘episode’ is not used here as it means admission and discharge in the admitted setting) |
TAC |
Technical Advisory Committee |
The Act |
National Health Reform Act 2011 |
Tier 2 |
Tier 2 Non-Admitted Services Classification |
TTR |
Teaching, Training and Research |
TTRWG |
Teaching, Training and Research Working Group |
UDG |
Urgency Disposition Groups |
URG |
Urgency Related Groups |
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