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Service/care provider—Medicare service provider practice location identifier

Data Element Concept Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term601953
Registration status:Help on this term

Commonwealth Department of Health (retired), Recorded 27/05/2015

Definition:Help on this termA unique identifier for a Medicare service provider's location, which may be the place of a provider’s practice or the place of equipment.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Service/care provider
METEOR identifier:Help on this term269017
Registration status:Help on this term

Health, Standard 01/03/2005

Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005

Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005

Commonwealth Department of Health (retired), Recorded 27/05/2015

Disability, Standard 13/08/2015

Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017

Definition:Help on this termA person or group of persons who provide services and/or care.
Specialisation of:Help on this termService/care provider

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australia Institute of Health and Welfare

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Medicare service provider practice location identifier
METEOR identifier:Help on this term601951
Registration status:Help on this term

Commonwealth Department of Health (retired), Recorded 27/05/2015

Definition:Help on this term

A unique identifier for a location which may be the place of a Medicare service provider’s practice, the place of a piece of equipment, etc.

Where the location refers to a provider location, it is the provider identifier (or number) which comprises a provider stem number, which is up to six characters, followed by a numeric or alphabetic character denoting the practice location.
Property group:Help on this termIdentifier characteristics

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Department of Health

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Department of Health

Relational attributes

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Service/care provider—Medicare service provider practice location identifier, text X

Commonwealth Department of Health (retired), Retired 19/10/2023

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