---
type: "codesystem"
title: "MedicationRequest Intent Codes"
codesystem: "medicationrequest-intent"
---
# MedicationRequest Intent Codes

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-intent
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: MedicationRequestIntentCodes
- **Title**: MedicationRequest Intent Codes
- **Description**: MedicationRequest Intent Codes
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| proposal | Proposal | The request is a suggestion made by someone/something that doesn't have an intention to ensure it occurs and without providing an authorization to act |
| plan | Plan | The request represents an intention to ensure something occurs without providing an authorization for others to act. |
| order | Order | The request represents a request/demand and authorization for action |
| option | Option | The request represents a component or option for a RequestOrchestration that establishes timing, conditionality and/or  other constraints among a set of requests. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="medicationrequest-intent"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="phx"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-intent"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.1378"/>
  </identifier>
  <name value="MedicationRequestIntentCodes"/>
  <title value="MedicationRequest Intent Codes"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <description value="MedicationRequest Intent Codes"/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medicationrequest-intent"/>
  <hierarchyMeaning value="is-a"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="proposal"/>
    <display value="Proposal"/>
    <definition value="The request is a suggestion made by someone/something that doesn't have an intention to ensure it occurs and without providing an authorization to act"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="plan"/>
    <display value="Plan"/>
    <definition value="The request represents an intention to ensure something occurs without providing an authorization for others to act."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="order"/>
    <display value="Order"/>
    <definition value="The request represents a request/demand and authorization for action"/>
    <concept>
      <code value="original-order"/>
      <display value="Original Order"/>
      <definition value="The request represents the original authorization for the medication request."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="reflex-order"/>
      <display value="Reflex Order"/>
      <definition value="The request represents an automatically generated supplemental authorization for action based on a parent authorization together with initial results of the action taken against that parent authorization.."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="filler-order"/>
      <display value="Filler Order"/>
      <definition value="The request represents the view of an authorization instantiated by a fulfilling system representing the details of the fulfiller's intention to act upon a submitted order."/>
      <concept>
        <code value="instance-order"/>
        <display value="Instance Order"/>
        <definition value="The request represents an instance for the particular order and is used to generate a schedule of requests on a medication administration record (MAR)."/>
      </concept>
    </concept>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="option"/>
    <display value="Option"/>
    <definition value="The request represents a component or option for a RequestOrchestration that establishes timing, conditionality and/or  other constraints among a set of requests."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```