---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Beneficiary Relationship Codes"
codesystem: "relationship"
---
# Beneficiary Relationship Codes

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/relationship
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: BeneficiaryRelationshipCodes
- **Title**: Beneficiary Relationship Codes
- **Description**: This value set includes the Patient to subscriber relationship codes.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Self | The patient is the subscriber (policy holder) |
| 2 | Spouse | The patient is the spouse or equivalent of the subscriber (policy holder) |
| 3 | Child | The patient is the child of the subscriber (policy holder) |
| 4 | Common Law Spouse | The patient is the common law spouse of the subscriber (policy holder) |
| 5 | Other | The patient has some other relationship, such as parent, to the subscriber (policy holder) |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="relationship"/>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/relationship"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.36"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.35"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.23"/>
  </identifier>
  <name value="BeneficiaryRelationshipCodes"/>
  <title value="Beneficiary Relationship Codes"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <description value="This value set includes the Patient to subscriber relationship codes."/>
  <copyright value="This is an example set."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="1"/>
    <display value="Self"/>
    <definition value="The patient is the subscriber (policy holder)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="2"/>
    <display value="Spouse"/>
    <definition value="The patient is the spouse or equivalent of the subscriber (policy holder)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="3"/>
    <display value="Child"/>
    <definition value="The patient is the child of the subscriber (policy holder)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="4"/>
    <display value="Common Law Spouse"/>
    <definition value="The patient is the common law spouse of the subscriber (policy holder)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="5"/>
    <display value="Other"/>
    <definition value="The patient has some other relationship, such as parent, to the subscriber (policy holder)"/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```