Medicare card number identifier N(11)
Value Domain Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 270694 |
| Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Recorded 27/03/2007 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
| Definition: | A combination of numeric characters that uniquely identify a Medicare customer. |
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Identifier | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N(11) | |
| Maximum character length: | 11 | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Full Medicare number for an individual (i.e. family number plus person (individual reference) number). |
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| Comments: | The Medicare card number is printed on a Medicare card and is used to access Medicare records for an eligible person. Up to 9 persons can be included under the one Medicare card number with up to five persons appearing on one physical card. Persons grouped under one Medicare card number are often a family, however, there is no requirement for persons under the same Medicare card number to be related. A person may be shown under separate Medicare card numbers where, for example, a child needs to be included on separate Medicare cards held by their parents. As a person can be identified on more than one Medicare card this is not a unique identifier for a person. |
Relational attributes | |
| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Person—government funding identifier, Medicare card number N(11) Community Services (retired), Recorded 27/03/2007 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 Tasmanian Health, Standard 02/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
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