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

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/encounter-businessstatus-type
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: EncounterBusinessStatusType
- **Title**: Encounter Business Status Type
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: The kind of workflow the business status is tracking.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| inpatient | Inpatient | The business status is tracking an inpatient workflow. |
| outpatient | Outpatient | The business status is tracking an outpatient workflow. |
| emergency | Emergency | The business status is tracking an emergency workflow. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="encounter-businessstatus-type"/>
  <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="informative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="1"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/encounter-businessstatus-type"/>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="EncounterBusinessStatusType"/>
  <title value="Encounter Business Status Type"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <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="The kind of workflow the business status is tracking."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/encounter-businessstatus-type"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="inpatient"/>
    <display value="Inpatient"/>
    <definition value="The business status is tracking an inpatient workflow."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="outpatient"/>
    <display value="Outpatient"/>
    <definition value="The business status is tracking an outpatient workflow."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="emergency"/>
    <display value="Emergency"/>
    <definition value="The business status is tracking an emergency workflow."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```