Service/care provider—number of Medicare services provided, total number N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Number of Medicare services provided |
METEOR identifier: | 601800 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The total number of Medicare services that are provided by a registered Medicare service provider for items in the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) for which a claim has been processed. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Service/care provider—number of Medicare services provided |
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METEOR identifier: | 601795 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 28/05/2015 |
Definition: | The number of Medicare services that are provided by a registered Medicare service provider for items in the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) for which a claim has been processed. |
Object class: | Service/care provider |
Property: | Number of Medicare services provided |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total number N |
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METEOR identifier: | 601797 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 |
Definition: | The total, sum, count or aggregate of a collection of units. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Count | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This item is to report the number of services as NUMSERV, i.e. where bulk billing incentive and modifier items are set to 0 and not counted in statistics i.e. where bulk billing and modifier items are not included in the count. A count of the number of Medicare services that are provided by a registered provider for items in the MBS for which a claim has been processed. it does not include services which can only be claimed in conjunction with other items, such as bulk-billing incentive items and modifier items. Number of services is derived by summing the possible values: It is possible for more than one service to be administered at a single attendance. Include services to private patients admitted in public hospitals. A count of services does not include the following:
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Collection methods: | This does not count incentive or modifying MBS items which are not attendances or procedures in their own right. For example MBS items: 10985, 10990, 10991, 10992, 64990, 64991, 74990, 74991, 74992, 74993, 74994, 74995, 74996, 74997, 74998, 74999, 17690, 63491, 63492, 63493, 63494, 63495, 63497, 63498 or 63499 +1 - Valid service submitted for the first time or resubmitted (after the original has been cancelled) -1 - Cancellations and negative adjustments (for example, returned or cancelled cheques) 0 - Underpayments, substantiations, substantiation adjustments and co-payment adjustments. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Service event—number of Medicare services claimed, total number N Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) state/territory data extract 2013-14 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 DSS specific information: Variable name = NUMSERV |