Medicare Benefits Expenditure on Specialist Attendances per Person
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The Medicare benefits expenditure on specialist attendances per person. A claim is classified as a specialist attendance if the item is in the Broad Type of Service group: Specialist attendance (C/200), and the service is not conducted in a hospital.
Numerator
Total benefit paid for eligible claims.
Denominator
Estimated Resident Population (ERP) as at 30 June at the previous end of financial year.
Exclusions
Specialist attendances exclude obstetrics attendances, which are included in the 'Obstetrics' Broad Type of Service group in official MBS claims data.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Direct age-standardisation
Stratifications
By Primary Health Network (PHN) area, Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3s), sex and age group in years (<15, 15-24, 25-44, 45-64, 65+).
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Estimated Resident Population (ERP).