Medical indemnity claim—claimant payment amount, total Australian currency N[N(8)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Medical indemnity claimant payment amount |
METEOR identifier: | 482271 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 21/11/2013 |
Definition: | The amount of money expended as compensation to a medical indemnity claimant, net of recoveries from third parties, in Australian dollars. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Medical indemnity claim—claimant payment amount |
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METEOR identifier: | 482267 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 21/11/2013 |
Definition: | The amount of money expended as compensation to a medical indemnity claimant, net of recoveries from third parties. |
Object class: | Medical indemnity claim |
Property: | Claimant payment amount |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total Australian currency N[N(8)] |
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METEOR identifier: | 270563 |
Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | Total number of Australian dollars. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Currency | |
Format: | N[N(8)] | |
Maximum character length: | 9 | |
Unit of measure: | Australian currency (AU$) |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The amount should include interim payments to claimants for claims while they are still open as well as final payments to claimants when a claim is closed. Except when recoveries from third parties are involved, the amount recorded for this item should be at least as much as that recorded for the same claim in a previous year, including when a claim changes its status from closed to reopened. Claimant legal costs, where reimbursed, are included. The amount should be recorded as $0 when there has been no expenditure on claimant payments. |
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Comments: | APRA (2006) data item 25 'Gross Claim Payments by Head of Damage before Third Party Recoveries' for finalised claims has 7 fields whose summed AU$ equals the AU$ amount for this Medical indemnity Data Set Specification data item for closed claims. The APRA fields are 'Past economic loss' (25.1), 'Future economic loss' (25.2), 'Past medical, hospital, caring and related services' (25.3), 'Future medical, hospital and related services' (25.4), 'Future caring services' (25.5), 'General damages' (25.6), and 'Plaintiff legal costs' (25.8). |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority) 2006. Data specifications National Claims and Policies Database document number 3.1. Canberra: APRA |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Medical indemnity claim—total amount expended, total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Standard 21/11/2013 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: |