Patient—hospital insurance status

Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	269703
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Tasmanian Health, Standard 23/06/2020
Definition:	Hospital insurance under one of the following categories: Registered insurance - hospital insurance with a health insurance fund registered under the National Health Act 1953 (Cwlth) General insurance - hospital insurance with a general insurance company under a guaranteed renewable policy providing benefits similar to those available under registered insurance No hospital insurance or benefits coverage under the above.
Context:	To assist in analysis of utilisation and health care financing.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Patient
Definition:	A person for whom a health service accepts responsibility for treatment and/or care.
Specialisation of:	Person/group of persons
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:	Hospital insurance status
Definition:	An indicator of private insurance cover for hospital expenses.
Property group:	Funding characteristics

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Patient—hospital insurance status, code N Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Patient—hospital insurance status, code N ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 05/10/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 23/06/2020