Person—eligibility status, Medicare code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Medicare eligibility status |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 270093 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Superseded 29/11/2006 |
Definition:![]() | An indicator of a person's eligibility for Medicare services as specified under the Commonwealth Health Insurance Act 1973, as represented by a code. |
Context:![]() | Admitted patient care: To facilitate analyses of hospital utilisation and policy relating to health care financing. |
Data Element Concept:![]() | Person—eligibility status |
Value Domain:![]() | Medicare eligibility status code N |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use:![]() | An eligible person includes a person who resides in Australia and is one of the following:
Other persons, as temporary residents, who are fully eligible for Medicare include:
Other persons, as visitors or temporary residents, who are eligible for Medicare, in certain circumstances, include:
With respect to hospital services, persons covered by an RHCA (except RHCA diplomats as they have full Medicare eligibility) are eligible only as public patients in a public hospital and are ineligible persons if they are admitted as a private patient in either a public or a private hospital; It should also be noted that some patients can be both an 'eligible person' and either personally or a third party liable for the payment of charges for hospital services received; for example:
Newborn babies take the eligibility status of the mother. |
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Comments:![]() | Commencing with Version 9.0 of the National Health Data Dictionary, three separate metadata items are recorded in the Dictionary:
This is because each metadata item relates to a separate concept and requires separate information to be reported. These three items replace the previous metadata items Patient accommodation eligibility status and Compensable status. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Has been superseded by Person—eligibility status, Medicare code N Health!, Superseded 04/07/2007 Is re-engineered from ![]() No registration status |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:![]() | Admitted patient care NMDS Health!, Superseded 07/12/2005 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 Admitted patient care NMDS 2006-07 Health!, Superseded 23/10/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2006 Implementation end date: 30/06/2007 |