Treatment Profiles are guides to the treatment and rehabilitation services ACC expects a practitioner to provide to a client for a particular injury. They describe current ‘good practice’ and what outcomes should be achieved.
About Treatment Profiles
Treatment Profiles are not rigid prescriptions; they are intended to provide flexibility and choice in clinical judgement according to patients' individual circumstances. However, when treatments and their outcomes are outside the limits described in the profiles, you may need to get ACC approval for any further treatment.
Treatment Profiles have been developed for 150 common injury types. A range of medical providers, including general practitioners, physiotherapists, sports physicians and medical specialists, have developed the profiles. ACC is able to provide a provider performance monitoring service benchmarked for each treatment profile.
Download Treatment Profiles
ACC579 Treatment Profiles 2001 (PDF 2.5M)
ACC4593 Nursing Treatment Profiles May 2008 (PDF 2.7M)
Physiotherapy Treatment Profiles 2000 (PDF 1.4M)
ACC1032 Chiropractic Treatment Profiles 2003 (PDF 808K)
ACC2361 Acupuncture Treatment Profiles May 2006 (PDF 1.2M)
Physiotherapy Treatment Profiles
The Physiotherapy Treatment Profiles were developed by the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Inc. (NZSP) in 1999 as a joint initiative with ACC.
From 16 November 2009 there were a number of changes introduced for physiotherapists including alignment with the Treatment Profiles.
Acupuncture, chiropractic and osteopathic treatment triggers
From 1 December 2010, a change to the ACC32 process for seeking prior approval for further treatment will be introduced. The change affects the number of treatments acupuncturists, chiropractors and osteopaths can provide where there is no treatment profile trigger number.
In cases where no treatment trigger number is associated with a Read code, providers can give up to a maximum of six treatments per claim, and if further treatments are required prior approval must be sought before any additional treatment is given.
Last updated: 12 November 2010