---
id: "medicare"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["AU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 30
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/medicare"
---

# Australian Medicare number by known name (`medicare`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Australian Medicare number by known name identifier

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Australia (AU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`
- fhir: `http://ns.electronichealth.net.au/id/medicare-number`
- google_dlp: `AUSTRALIA_MEDICARE_NUMBER`
- presidio: `AU_MEDICARE`
- purview: `Australia medical account number`

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 2 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `aumedicareknown` (field, `au/au_persons.yaml`)
- `au_pii_aumedicareknown` (field, `pii/au/au_pii.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `awsglue`
- `azureailanguage`
- `databricks`
- `googledlp`
- `metacrafter`
- `microsoftpurview`
- `nightfall`
- `openmetadata`
- `presidio`
- `snowflake`

## Quality

Score 30/100. Missing: longer description, regexp, examples, negative example, source link, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/medicare.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/AU/persons/medicare.yaml>