04 September 2019
Daniel Ryan
[FYI request #10932 email]
Tēnā koe Daniel
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-001032
Thank you for your email of 08 August 2019, asking for the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
1. For 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years, the amount of money ACC spent on funding
acupuncture treatments, broken down by injury by body part as fol ows:
Head, Neck, Shoulders, Arms, Elbows, Wrists, Hands, Spinal, Torso, Hips, Legs, Knees, Ankles
and Feet.
2. Any more specific breakdowns of acupuncture spending by injury that are available for this
period, for example, categorised by site and type of injury.
3. All previous and current predictions of spending on acupuncture treatments by ACC.
Information on ACC’s acupuncture spend is attached (Questions 1 and 2)
Please find information on ACC’s spend on acupuncture by the injury site (head, neck etc) and injury
diagnosis in the attached Excel file. Please refer to the notes provided in the attachment when
reviewing the information.
Budget for acupuncture is provided below (Question 3)
In terms of ‘predictions of spending’, ACC calculates an estimate (budget) of its spend for various
claim-related costs for each new financial year (including treatment services). Please find below the
budgets we calculated for acupuncture for the financial years 2016/17 to 2019/20.
ACC’s budgets for acupuncture (ex GST)
Financial year
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
Budget
$31.90m
$38.43m
$43.27m
$50.26m
Privacy
We have suppressed some cost information as a precaution against the possibility that individual
claims, and cost information attributable to those claims, may be identified. In this case, we have
used the value ‘<$100’ for any spend less than $100, and have suppressed some figures (indicated by
‘..’) to ensure that exact amounts cannot be calculated from the totals.
This measure has been taken to protect personal privacy, and is made under section 9(2)(a) of the
Act. We consider that the public interest in the specific figures does not outweigh the individual
privacy interests.
Queries about our response
If you have any questions, you can email me at
[email address].
GOV-001032
If you are not happy with this response, 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
Emma Coats
Manager Official Information Act Services
Government Engagement & Support
Accident Compensation Corporation
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