Patient Name and Sex Rule- Medicare

Patient Name and Sex Rule- Medicare

First name and Surname fields have Character limitations. 
Characters accepted are alpha-numeric characters, apostrophes, hyphens and spaces; however spaces must not appear immediately before or after the apostrophes and hyphens.
For example:
  1. O’Toole – Valid
  2. O’ Toole – Invalid (one or more spaces after apostrophe)
  3. ’Toole – Invalid (one or more spaces before apostrophe)
  4. Anne-Marie – Valid
  5. Anne -Marie – Invalid (one or more spaces before hyphen)
  6. Anne- Marie – Invalid (one or more spaces after hyphen)
  7. Anne - Marie – Invalid (one or more spaces before and after hyphen)
  8. Robert AKA Bob – Valid
  9. Robert (Bob) - Invalid (‘(‘ and ‘)’ are not one of the allowed characters)
AKA: Field added to cater for patient preferred name. 

Patient Sex
Personal titles for any form of Male or Female addressing are valid.
Unisex is no Longer valid for any personal title.

Proda Version has the extra personal titles
Male
Female
Intersex\Other
Not Stated
Transgender