Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS)
Health Service Executive- National Health
Schemes Data.
1970 (data collection),
1993 (first records visible online).
To support the delivery of primary
healthcare by providing reimbursement
services to primary care contractors for the provision of health services to members of the public in their own community.
The data covers the main national health schemes throughout the entire country.
1970- Present.
The HSE supports the delivery
of primary healthcare by operating contracts with primary care contractors for the provision of health services to members of the public in their own community.
Government, HSE, CSO, business interests, researchers, media, public.
The data contains information on the number of people in use of the services; details of health services provided and medicine products prescribed and dispensed.
Not available.
Patient identifiers are collected to record eligibility which include PPSN.
Place of residence and gender are captured for medical card holders. Where means test apply, income is also captured.
Claim data is processed and payments are made by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service under the following Schemes/Payment Arrangements:
- General Medical Services (GMS)
- Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS)
- Long Term Illness Scheme (LTI)
- Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- High Tech Drugs (HTD)
- Primary Childhood Immunisation Scheme
- Health (Amendment) Act 1996
- Methadone Treatment Scheme
- Health Service Executive Community Ophthalmic Services Scheme (HSE-COS)
- Immunisations for certain GMS Eligible Persons
- General Practitioner Visit Card (GPVC)
Data is collected via both electronic and manual data capture approaches. Data is captured record by record in real time as its generated and also in batches from various parts of the health system, e.g. HSE offices and Pharmacies etc.
N/A.
In 2021, PCRS carried out between 80 and 90 million business transactions which corresponded to reimbursement for items of service. There are 12 community health schemes and the PCRS data model including core and supporting data structures comprises approximately 1,400 entities.
Data is published annually in the PCRS statistical analysis report, available on the website, with monthly updates available on the Publications page. The CSO also publish summary data on their website.
Access via https://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/pcrs/pcrs-publications/
Yes.
Primary Care Contractors are the primary source of data within PCRS via their claims.