Development of the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups V8.0
Date published: 31 December 2014
As per the contract for Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) Classification System Development and Refinement Services between the Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) and the University of Sydney as represented by the National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH), the Australian Consortium for Classification Development (ACCD) led by the NCCH is required to deliver AR-DRG Version (V) 8.0 to IHPA by 31 October 2014.
To date, there have been multiple changes to the existing AR-DRG structure; however AR-DRG V8.0 represents the first systematic review of the structure’s relationship to actual variations in resource use due to case complexity since AR-DRG V4.1 in 1998