AIHW - Medicare Benefits Schedule Statistics - Number of GP Attendances in Aged-care Homes (PHN) 2013-2017

This dataset presents the footprint of the number of general practitioner (GP) attendances in residential aged-care facilities per patient who received at least one GP attendance in a facility. This has been calculated with the total services from eligible claims (not including any bulk-billed incentive items or other top-up items), divided by the count of patients where the sum of GP attendances in residential aged-care facilities is greater than or equal to 1. The data spans the financial years of 2013-2017 and is aggregated to 2015 Department of Health Primary Health Network (PHN) areas, based on the 2011 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The data is sourced from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) claims data, which are administered by the Australian Government Department of Health. These claims data are derived from administrative information on services that qualify for a Medicare benefit under the Health Insurance Act 1973 and for which a claim is processed by the Department of Human Services. For further information about this dataset visit the data source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Medicare Benefits Schedule GP and Specialist Attendances and Expenditure in 2016-17 Data Tables. Please note:

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data using the Department of Health - PHN Areas.

MBS claims data do not include services that were provided free of charge to public patients in hospitals or were subsidised by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, compensation arrangements or through other publicly funded programs including jurisdictional salaried GP services provided in remote outreach clinics.

A claim is classified as a GP attendance in a residential aged-care facility if the Medicare service is one of the following codes: 00020, 00035, 00043, 00051, 00092, 00093, 00095, 00096, 05010, 05028, 05049, 05067, 05260, 05263, 05265, 05267, 00731, 00903, 02125, 02138, 02179, 02220.

GP attendances in residential aged-care facilities comprise only GP attendances provided to patients in a residential aged-care facility.