What other information is available?
Definitions of the terms used in this section are available in the Glossary.
Funding source
For the clinic level data provided, 4 funding sources could be assigned:
- Medicare Benefits Scheme
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs
- Compensable—which includes:
- Worker’s compensation
- Motor vehicle third party personal claim
- Other compensation
- Other—which includes:
- Health service budget (including Reciprocal Health Care Agreements, or where no charge was raised due to hospital decision). This category includes both state/territory and Australian Government contributions.
- Other hospital or public authority (contracted care)
- Department of Defence
- Correctional facilities
- Private health insurance
- Self-funded
- Other funding source
- Not known
Non-admitted patient clinics
The clinics are categorised into 4 major classes:
- Procedural clinics—which provide minor surgical and non-surgical procedures (that do not require the patient to be admitted) by a surgeon or other medical specialist.
- Medical consultation clinics—typically provided by a medical or nurse practitioner. There may also be input from allied health personnel and/or clinical nurse specialists.
- Diagnostic service clinics— which provide diagnostic services within a specific field of medicine or condition. These services include imaging, screening, clinical measurement and pathology.
- Allied health and/or clinical nurse specialist intervention clinics— which provide services by an allied health professional or clinical nurse specialist.
A clinic may provide a range of health services that fall into different Tier 2 clinic classes, and when this occurs the clinic is classified based on its predominant activity.