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Contracted hospital care service
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040130 v2
Data Element
Data Element Concept
Draft
12-Jun-2014		Current
04-Aug-2014
Standard
01-Jul-2014
Contracted hospital care service is a healthcare service provided to a patient under an agreement between a purchaser of hospital care (a contracting hospital or non-hospital purchaser) and a provider of an admitted or non-admitted service (a contracted hospital).
Admitted patient care
Representational Attributes
Permissible Values

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Supplementary Values

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Collection and Usage Attributes
Contracted hospital care service must involve all of the following:
- an agreement, between a purchaser and provider to pay for healthcare service
- a purchaser, which can be a public or licensed private hospital, or a health authority (department or Hospital and Health Service) or other external purchaser
- a provider (a contracted hospital), which can be a public or licensed private hospital
- the purchaser paying the contracted hospital for the contracted service; thus, services provided to a patient in a separate facility during their episode of care, where the patient is directly responsible for payment of this additional service, are not considered contracted services for reporting purposes
- a healthcare service, reported by the provider where the patient is admitted and/or the purchaser where the patient is admitted at the purchasing hospital

Pathology or other investigations performed at another location on specimens gathered at the purchasing hospital would not be considered contracted services for reporting purposes.

Allocation of diagnosis and procedure codes should not be affected by the contract status of an episode. The Australian Coding Standards should be applied when coding all episodes of care.

Procedures performed by a private health provider (non-hospital) (i.e. not a licensed hospital) are coded. Private health providers include those organisations that would not have a Queensland Health facility number, but deliver services such as physiotherapy, radiology and pathology.

For admitted patients placed on contract leave (for part of the treatment to be provided under contract by another hospital), the episode of care (and any derived Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) should reflect the total treatment provided (all patient days and procedures). The contracted procedure(s) should be flagged, the purchaser/provider identifier recorded, and the contract leave recorded.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
SupersedesData ElementData Element ConceptContract serviceQH 040130 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-contract procedure flagQH 040101 Version 2Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-contract provider identifierQH 040129 Version 2Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-contract roleQH 040806 Version 3Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-contract typeQH 040807 Version 3Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-date of starting contract leaveQH 040127 Version 2Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-date returned from contract leaveQH 040128 Version 2Current
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-type 1 contract purchaser identifierQH 041711 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData ElementContracted hospital care service-type 2, 3, 4 or 5 contract purchaser identifierQH 041712 Version 1Superseded
Relates toData ElementData Element ConceptContract leaveQH 040265 Version 2Current
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementContracted hospital care service-type 1 contract purchaser identifierQH 041711 Version 5Draft
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementContracted hospital care service-type 1 contract purchaser identifierQH 041711 Version 4Current
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementContracted hospital care service-type 1 contract purchaser identifierQH 041711 Version 3Superseded
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementContracted hospital care service-type 1 contract purchaser identifierQH 041711 Version 2Superseded
Relates toData ElementDerived Data ElementContracted hospital care service-type 2, 3, 4 or 5 contract purchaser identifierQH 041712 Version 2Current
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 2Current01-Jul-2019
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 1Superseded01-Jul-201430-Jun-2019
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
METeOR object class: Contracted hospital care, identifier 268981, Health standard 01/03/2005 https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/268981
Contract care; Contract service;