Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—PBS item prescribed, code NN[NNN]A
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | PBS item prescribed |
Synonymous names: | PBS item code; PBS item number; Supplied item number; Item code |
METEOR identifier: | 600778 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) item prescribed in a claim for a benefit under the PBS, as represented by a PBS item code. This includes under co-payment claims where no benefit is paid, i.e. instances where the dispensed price of the prescribed medicinal or therapeutic product is less than the amount of the applicable co-payment. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription—PBS item prescribed |
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METEOR identifier: | 600289 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) item prescribed in a claim for a benefit under the PBS. |
Object class: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescription |
Property: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) item prescribed |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) item code NN[NNN]A |
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Synonymous names: | PBS item code |
METEOR identifier: | 600257 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The code set representing the medicinal and therapeutic products included in the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits. The code set also includes the items listed in the separate Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits (RPBS), which are structured in the same way. |
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
Format: | NN[NNN]A | |
Maximum character length: | 6 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
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Reference documents: | Department of Health 2015. Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits. Department of Health, Canberra. Viewed 18 September 2015, http://www.pbs.gov.au/browse/publications Department of Health 2015. Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits. Department of Health, Canberra. Viewed 22 October 2015, http://www.pbs.gov.au/browse/rpbs |