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Episode of care-Department of Veterans' Affairs funding indicator

Identifying and Definitional Attributes

Identifier & Version

QH 040971 v1

Metadata Item Type

Data Element

Data Element Type

Derived Data Element

Approval Status

Current
01-Jul-2000

Approval Type

Standard

Approving Authority

Effective From

01-Jul-2000

Effective To

30-Jun-2018

Definition

Indicates whether an eligible person's charges for this hospital admission are met by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) for the episode of care.

Context

Health services

Short Name

Department of Veterans' Affairs funding indicator

Name in Other Contexts

Representational Attributes

Datatype

Numeric

Representation Class

Code

Format

Minimum Character Length

Maximum Character Length

Permissible Values

Permissible_values

Code	Description
1	Yes
2	No

Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

Collection and Usage Attributes

Guide for Use

Refer to the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 for details of eligible DVA beneficiaries.

New

Verification Rules

Collection Methods

Whether or not charges for this episode of care are met by the DVA is routinely established as part of hospital admission processes.

Comments

Eligible veterans and war widow/widowers can receive free treatment at any public hospital, former Repatriation Hospitals (RHs) or a Veteran Partnering (VP) contracted private hospital as a private patient in a shared ward, with the doctor of their choice. Admission to a public hospital does not require prior approval from the DVA.
When treatment cannot be provided within a reasonable time in the public health system at a former RH or a private VP hospital, there is a system of contracted non-VP private hospitals which will provide care.
Admission to a contracted private hospital requires prior financial authorisation from DVA. Approval may be given to attend a non-contracted private hospital when the service is not available at a public or contracted non-VP private hospital.
In an emergency a Repatriation patient can be admitted to the nearest hospital, public or private, without reference to DVA.
If an eligible veteran or war widow/widower chooses to be treated under Veterans' Affairs arrangements, which includes obtaining prior approval for non-VP private hospital care, DVA will meet the full cost of their treatment.
To assist in analyses of utilisation and health care funding.

Relational Attributes

Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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View	Relationship	Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifier & Version	Approval Status
	Has been superseded by	Data Element	Derived Data Element	Episode of care-Department of Veterans' Affairs funding indicator	QH 040971 Version 2	Draft
	Is derived from	Data Element	Data Element	Person-Department of Veterans' Affairs file number	QH 040625 Version 2	Current

Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

1 - 1

View	Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifer & Version	Obligation	Approval Status	Effective From	Effective To
	Information Asset	Data Collection	Emergency Data Collection (EDC)	QH 020159 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	23-Oct-2006	30-Jun-2018

Data Quality Declaration

Source and Reference Attributes

Source Organisation

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Source Document

METeOR data element: Episode of care-funding eligibility indicator (Department of Veterans' Affairs), code N, Indicator 270092, Health standard 01/03/2005 https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/270092/meteorItemView/long

Keywords

DVA; Funding;