Leave and hospital-in-the-home care NBEDS 2024-25
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 782298 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
DSS type: | Data Set Specification (DSS) |
Scope: | The scope of the Leave and hospital-in-the-home care national best endeavours data set (LHITH NBEDS) is periods of formal absences from care facilities within episodes of admitted patient care. Only episodes of admitted patient care within public hospitals and publicly funded episodes of admitted care within private hospitals are included. An absence from a care facility is defined as a period of leave or hospital-in-the-home care (HITH), including part-day leave and part-day HITH. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Statistical unit: | An absence from a care facility within an episode of admitted patient care. |
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Guide for use: | Interaction with the Admitted patient care national minimum data set (APC NMDS). The LHITH NBEDS and APC NMDS work together to identify - and exclude from compliance activity - potential false positive data matches of duplicate National Health Reform Agreement (NHRA) and Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) payments for public hospital services. Duplicate payments occur when the MBS is billed for a hospital service provided to a public patient that is already funded under NHRA/public patient funding or other Commonwealth or State arrangements. Subsection 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 states, unless the Minister otherwise directs, a Medicare benefit is not payable for a professional service if the service has already been paid for under another mechanism or arrangement with the Commonwealth, or state or territory government. Identifying periods of leave or HITH within an episode of admitted patient care enables the Department of Health and Aged Care to identify potential duplicate payments. |
Collection methods: | Data are collected at each hospital from patient administrative and clinical record systems. Hospitals forward data to the relevant state or territory health authority, or enter it into a state/territory wide system, on a regular basis (e.g., monthly). National reporting arrangements State and territory health authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) for national collation on an annual basis. Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated Annually (financial year) ending 30 June each year. |
Implementation start date: | 01/07/2024 |
Implementation end date: | 30/06/2025 |
Comments: | Multiple absences from care facilities (periods of leave or hospital-in-the-home care (HITH), including part-day leave and part-day HITH) may be recorded within the same episode of admitted patient care. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health and Aged Care |
Reference documents: | COAG (Council of Australian Governments) 2011. National Health Reform Agreement 2011. Canberra, COAG. Viewed 25 August 2023, https://federalfinancialrelations.gov.au/agreements/national-health-reform-agreement |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Admitted patient care NMDS 2024–25 Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
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