This week, we have two new pieces of key information become available in the lead up to the implementation of the AN-ACC funding tool.
- Additional Reclassification Triggers
- Information on what is considered a Compounding Factor
The Classification Principles 2014 (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2022C00746) were updated to include the following information:
Additional Reclassification Triggers
New Reclassification triggers for Permanent Residents have been added, significantly now comprising of the below for Permanent Residents:
“For the purposes of a reclassification of a care recipient for non-respite care, the care needs of the care recipient are taken to have changed significantly if, since the day the existing classification of the care recipient took effect:
a) there has been a change in the care recipient’s cognitive ability, compounding factors, function, mobility or pressure sore risk; or”
This can be found in the Classification Principles 2014 under Part 14—Reclassification of care recipients, section 43.
Compounding Factors
The Classification Principles 2014 also shares information on what is considered to be a Compounding Factor.
This can be found in the Classification Principles 2014 under Part 1—Preliminary section 4A Meaning of compounding factors.
Mathew Brincat
General Manager - Clinical & Quality
