Episode of care—funding eligibility indicator (Department of Veterans' Affairs), code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Department of Veterans' Affairs patient |
| METEOR identifier: | 270092 |
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| Definition: | Whether an eligible person's charges for this hospital admission are met by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA), as represented by a code. |
| Context: | Health services |
| Data Element Concept: | Episode of care—funding eligibility indicator |
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| Data type: | Boolean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | Refer to the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (Cwlth) for details of eligible DVA beneficiaries. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection methods: | Whether or not charges for this episode of care are met by the DVA is routinely established as part of hospital admission processes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Eligible veterans and war widows/widowers can receive free treatment at any public hospital, former Repatriation Hospitals (RHs) or a Veteran Partnering (VP) contracted private hospital as a private patient in a shared ward, with the doctor of their choice. Admission to a public hospital does not require prior approval from the DVA. When treatment cannot be provided within a reasonable time in the public health system at a former RH or a private VP hospital, there is a system of contracted non-VP private hospitals which will provide care. Admission to a contracted private hospital requires prior financial authorisation from DVA. Approval may be given to attend a non-contracted private hospital when the service is not available at a public or contracted non-VP private hospital. In an emergency a Repatriation patient can be admitted to the nearest hospital, public or private, without reference to DVA. If an eligible veteran or war widow/widower chooses to be treated under Veterans' Affairs arrangements, which includes obtaining prior approval for non-VP private hospital care, DVA will meet the full cost of their treatment. To assist in analyses of utilisation and health care funding. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes  Department of Veterans' Affairs patient, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.9 KB) No registration statusHas been superseded by Episode of care—Department of Veterans' Affairs funding indicator, yes/no code N
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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