---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Kind"
codesystem: "coverage-kind"
---
# Kind

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/coverage-kind
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: Kind
- **Title**: Kind
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: The nature of the Coverage details which convey who is paying potentially for health services.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| insurance | Insurance | The Coverage provides the identifiers and card-level details of an insurance policy. |
| self-pay | Self-pay | One or more persons and/or organizations are paying for the services rendered. |
| other | Other | Some other organization is paying for the service. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="coverage-kind"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="fm"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="2"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/coverage-kind"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.2077"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="Kind"/>
  <title value="Kind"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="The nature of the Coverage details which convey who is paying potentially for health services."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/coverage-kind"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="insurance"/>
    <display value="Insurance"/>
    <definition value="The Coverage provides the identifiers and card-level details of an insurance policy."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="self-pay"/>
    <display value="Self-pay"/>
    <definition value="One or more persons and/or organizations are paying for the services rendered."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="other"/>
    <display value="Other"/>
    <definition value="Some other organization is paying for the service."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```