NCCH has continued with its practice of seeking public submissions for changes to the classification. The centre acknowledges input from members of the Clinical Casemix Committee of Australia (CCCA), Clinical Classification and Coding Groups (CCCG) and particularly from the NCCH?s Coding Standards Advisory Committee (CSAC). CSAC has representation from Australian state and territory jurisdictions, New Zealand, the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA), the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the Clinical Coders Society of Australia (CCSA), the private sector, CCCA and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. The depth and scope of the scrutiny of changes emanating from both inside and outside the NCCH, should guarantee the relevance of the classification as the Australian Standard for the next 2 years.
Summary statistics regarding the number of new and deleted codes and a summary of the major changes in sixth edition.
Sixth Edition Errata
The Sixth Edition errata is now available for download.