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Episode of admitted patient care—elected accommodation status, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termAdmitted patient election status
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270044
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 23/10/2006
Definition:Help on this termAccommodation chargeable status elected by a patient on admission, as represented by a code
Data Element Concept:Episode of admitted patient care—elected accommodation status

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Public
2Private

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

CODE 1     Public patient:

A person, eligible for Medicare, who, on admission to a recognised hospital or soon after:

  • receives a public hospital service free of charge; or
  • elects to be a public patient; or
  • whose treatment is contracted to a private hospital.

CODE 2     Private patient:

A person who, on admission to a recognised hospital or soon after:

  • elects to be a private patient treated by a medical practitioner of his or her choice; or
  • elects to occupy a bed in a single room (where such an election is made, the patient is responsible for meeting certain hospital charges as well as the professional charges raised by any treating medical or dental practitioner); or
  • a person, eligible for Medicare, who chooses to be admitted to a private hospital (where such a choice is made, the patient is responsible for meeting all hospital charges as well as the professional charges raised by any treating medical or dental practitioner).

Please see the various Commonwealth/State Health Care Agreements for definitions of patient(s) and patient services.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

At the time of, or as soon as practicable after admission to a public hospital, the patient must elect in writing to be treated as either

  • a public patient;
  • a private patient in single accommodation; or
  • a private patient in shared accommodation.

This item is independent of patient's hospital insurance status. Private includes private-single and private-shared.

Collection methods:Help on this term

Commencing with Version 9 of the Dictionary, four separate data elements Admitted patient hospital stay—elected accommodation status, code N, Person—Medicare eligibility status, code N, Episode of care—treatment funding eligibility status (Department of Veterans' Affairs), code N and Patient—compensable status, code N - are recorded in the Dictionary. This is because each element relates to a separate concept and requires separate information to be reported. These data elements replace the previous data elements Patient accommodation eligibility status and Compensable status.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes PDFAdmitted patient election status, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.1 KB) No registration status
Has been superseded by Episode of admitted patient care—patient election status, code N
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
  • Health, Standard 23/10/2006
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/09/2016
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Admitted patient care NMDSHealth, Superseded 07/12/2005

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2005

Implementation end date: 30/06/2006


Admitted patient care NMDS 2006-07Health, Superseded 23/10/2006

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2006

Implementation end date: 30/06/2007


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