03 April 2020
David Lawson
[FYI request #12433 email]
Tēnā koe David Lawson
Time Extension of your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-004164
Thank you for your request of 11 March 2020, asking for the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
OIA 1982 Request 1
Please confirm whether ACC accepts complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) injuries for cover under
the ACC Act 2001, and any of the ACC Act's previous versions.
OIA 1982 Request 2
If the answer to OIA 1982 Request 1 above is yes, please advise when ACC first accepted claims for
CRPS.
OIA 1982 Request 3
If the answer to OIA 1982 Request 1 above is yes, please confirm what the ACC Read Code is for
complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is and all variants further denoting such things as: (1) the
area of of the body the CRPS applies to, (the type of CRPS that applies) * Please refer to the CRPS
ICD 10 Codes for CRPS sourced from http://www.rsdhope.org/icd-10-codes-for-crps.html included at
the bottom of the page.
OIA 1982 Request 4
If the answer to request OIA 1982 Request 1 is yes, please advise if and when the ACC Read Codes
that ACC treatment providers use to lodge specific injury code diagnoses with the Corporation were
updated to include the injury diagnosis complex regional pain syndrome, and expanded to include
all sub codes in line with the ICD classification diagnosis codes.
OIA 1982 Request 5
If ACC does not have comparative Read Codes for CRPS and all it's sub diagnosis codes in line with
the ICD yearly diagnosis codes, how has a claimant's CRPS injury been registered as an injury on EOS
on a claimant's claim file as a diagnosis code?. . i.e. so what recognised diagnosis code or codes for
CRPS are used to provide an updated diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome on a claimants
EOS claim file.
Does ACC record CRPS as CRPS on a clients clain records on EOS or does ACC use a different medical
term to register a CRPS injury diagnosis on a claimants EOS claim file. If so please use the medical
diagnosis term that ACC has previously and currently use for updating a claimants CRPS injury code
on their EOS file.
GOV-004164
Under s16(2) of the Official Information Act, my preferred way of receiving a response is by email to
the address from which ACC received the original request, not by post.
ACC needs extra time
The Act requires that we advise you of our decision on your request no later than 20 working days after the
day we received your request. Unfortunately, it wil not be possible to meet that time limit and we are
therefore writing to notify you of an extension of the time to make our decision, to 30 April 2020.
This extension is necessary because your request necessitates a search through a large quantity of
information and meeting the original time limit would unreasonably interfere with our operations. As such
a proper response cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.
How to contact us
Please contact me o
n [email address] if you would like to talk about this letter. I wil be
happy to answer any questions or, if you have any concerns, work with you to resolve these.
If you are not happy with our decision to extend the time frame to respond to your request, you have the
right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Sasha Wood
Manager Official Information Act Services
Government Engagement & Support
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