Accommodation Type

Definition: This field contains the financial accommodation type of the bed or room which implies the rate to be used when occupied by a patient under specific medical conditions, which determines how it is billed. Not the same as specialty type. Used for general ledger categories. Specialty type is a physical accommodation type, whereas this field is a financial accommodation type. Repeating coded value. Site-defined codes. User-defined table 0129 - Accommodation code is used as the HL7 identifier for the user-defined table of values for this field.