---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Encounter Business Status - Inpatient"
codesystem: "encounter-businessstatus-inpatient"
---
# Encounter Business Status - Inpatient

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/encounter-businessstatus-inpatient
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: EncounterBusinessStatusInpatient
- **Title**: Encounter Business Status - Inpatient
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Business statuses for inpatient encounters.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| pre-admit | Pre-admit | The patient has been pre-admitted but has not yet arrived at the facility. |
| pend-admit | Pending Admit | The patient admission is pending. |
| admit | Admitted | The patient has been admitted to the facility. |
| discharge | Discharge | The patient is in the process of being discharged or has been discharged. |
| unknown | Unknown | The inpatient business status is unknown. Note that "unknown" is a value of last resort and every attempt should be made to provide a meaningful value other than "unknown". |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="encounter-businessstatus-inpatient"/>
  <meta>
    <lastUpdated value="2025-10-29T00:00:00.000+00:00"/>
    
  </meta>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="pa"/>
  </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="1"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/encounter-businessstatus-inpatient"/>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="EncounterBusinessStatusInpatient"/>
  <title value="Encounter Business Status - Inpatient"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2025-10-29T00:00:00+00:00"/>
  <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="Business statuses for inpatient encounters."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/encounter-businessstatus-inpatient"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="pre-admit"/>
    <display value="Pre-admit"/>
    <definition value="The patient has been pre-admitted but has not yet arrived at the facility."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="pend-admit"/>
    <display value="Pending Admit"/>
    <definition value="The patient admission is pending."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="admit"/>
    <display value="Admitted"/>
    <definition value="The patient has been admitted to the facility."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="discharge"/>
    <display value="Discharge"/>
    <definition value="The patient is in the process of being discharged or has been discharged."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="unknown"/>
    <display value="Unknown"/>
    <definition value="The inpatient business status is unknown. Note that &quot;unknown&quot; is a value of last resort and every attempt should be made to provide a meaningful value other than &quot;unknown&quot;."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```