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Data Element Detail

Medicare card number
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040164 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Current
15-Jan-1998		Superseded
14-Apr-2003
Standard
01-Jul-1984
30-Jun-2003
Medicare number of patient. Personal identifier allocated by the Health Insurance Commission to eligible persons under the Medicare scheme.
Medicare utilisation statistics and institutional health care.
Medicare card number
Representational Attributes
Numeric Character
Identification Number
N(10)
10
10
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

Full Medicare number, ie, the family number followed by one digit card number.
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
Only the family number (the first nine digits) and the card number (the 10th digit) are collected. The 11th digit, or line/person number on the Medicare card is not collected.
Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC):
Transmit as blank if not available or if null.
Not mandatory from either public or private hospitals. Under Medicare, each eligible family in the population is assigned a unique identifying number. This number, together with age and sex, provides an essentially unique identifier.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Has been superseded byData ElementData ElementMedicare card numberQH 040164 Version 2Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementMedicare eligibility statusQH 040058 Version 1Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionEmergency Data Collection (EDC)QH 020159 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jan-200330-Jun-2003
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Cancer Registry (QCR) Data CollectionQH 020002 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-198430-Jun-2003
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)QH 020001 Version 1ConditionalSuperseded01-Jul-198430-Jun-2003
Source and Reference Attributes
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
National Health Data Dictionary
Medicare;