Patient—hospital insurance status, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
• Health, Superseded 05/10/2016

Data element concept attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

• ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
• Health, Standard 01/03/2005
• Tasmanian Health, Standard 23/06/2020

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

• ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
• Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
• Health, Standard 01/03/2005
• Tasmanian Health, Standard 23/06/2020

Representational attributes

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Persons covered by insurance for benefits of ancillary services only are included in 2 - no hospital insurance.

The 'unknown' category should not be used in primary collections but can be used to record unknown insurance status in databases.

This metadata item is to determine whether the patient has hospital insurance, not their method of payment for the episode of care.

Insurance status was reviewed and modified to reflect changes to new private health insurance arrangements under the Health Legislation (Private Health Insurance Reform) Amendment Act 1995.

Employee health benefits schemes became illegal with the implementation of Schedule 2 of the private health insurance reforms, effective on 1 October 1995.

Under Schedule 4 of the private health insurance reforms, on 1 July 1997, the definition of the 'basic private table' or 'basic table', and 'supplementary hospital table' and any references to these definitions was omitted from the National Health Act 1953. All hospital tables offered by registered private health insurers since 29 May 1995 have been referred to as 'Applicable Benefits Arrangements' and marketed under the insurer's own product name.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes