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Clinical coding and classifications education

Eleventh Edition ACS 0002 Additional diagnoses and ACS 0010 Clinical documentation and abstraction guidelines

The Eleventh Edition ACS 0002 Additional diagnoses and ACS 0010 Clinical documentation and abstraction guidelines education supports the consistent application of the Eleventh Edition changes to the Australian Coding Standards ACS 0002 and ACS 0010. The document has been updated to reflect changes to ACS 0002 published by IHPA in errata 3.

Eleventh Edition Victorian Education ACS 0002 and ACS 0010 

Clinical coding and classifications bulletins

The clinical coding and classifications bulletin is produced to inform health information managers, clinical coders and other interested parties of changes to health classifications and coding applicable to admitted episodes separated on or from 1 July.

VAHI Health classifications and coding bulletin Issue 4: July 2020 

VAHI Health classifications and coding bulletin Issue 3: 9 September 2019 

VAHI Health classifications and coding bulletin Issue 2: 30 July 2018

VAHI Health classifications and coding bulletin Issue 1: 29 June 2017

Education documents

Education documents and feature articles support the work of Victorian health information managers and clinical coders by providing them with additional information where existing coding standards and Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) business rules require further clarification.

Eleventh Edition Victorian Education ACS 0002 and ACS 0010 

Coding and VAED reporting of CVS updated July 2019

Same day endoscopy flow chart

Diabetes coding with ACS 0401 (eight edition)

Clarification of contracted procedures coding and flagging

To view archived information, visit Clinical coding and classifications archive.

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HDSS Helpdesk
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+61 3 9096 8595

 

For information and advice about standards, specifications and data quality processes for the VAED, VEMD, ESIS, AIMS, VINAH, F1 and VCDC. 

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