A0600B


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Property Specification
Data System MDS
Data Specs V2.00.1
Description Resident Medicare/railroad insurance number
Group Asmt
Type Text
Length 12
Fixed Start-End 323-334
Version Notes [V2.00.0]-Item added to the new NPE and SPE item subsets.
[V2.00.1]-Item is no longer associated with the SPE item subset, which was deleted per issue 09 of the errata for V2.00.0.

Item Subsets
Active NC,NQ,NP,NS,NSD,NO,NOD,ND,NT,SP,SS,SSD,SO,SOD,SD,ST,NPE
Inactive XX
State optional

Item Values
Value LOINC Text
Text Resident Medicare number (or comparable railroad insurance number)
^ Blank (not available or unknown)

Item Edits
Edit ID Type Severity Edit Text
-3688 Format Fatal Formatting of Alphanumeric Text Items:
If this item is not equal to one of the special values (if any) that are listed in the Item Values table of the Detailed Data Specifications Report, then it must contain a text string. This text string may contain only the following characters:
a) The numeric characters: [0] through [9].
b) The letters [A] through [Z] and [a] through [z].
-3569 Format Fatal If the first character is numeric [0 through 9], then the first 9 characters must be digits [0 through 9].
-3570 Format Fatal If the first character is alphabetic, then there must be 1, 2, or 3 alphabetic characters followed by 6 or 9 numbers, up to the length of the item.
-3793 Format Fatal The length of the text submitted for a free-form text item must not exceed the maximum length specified for that item.
-3571 Consistency Fatal If this is a PPS assessment (A0310B=[01,02,03,04,05,06,07]), then the Medicare or comparable railroad insurance number (A0600B) must be present (not [^]). Thus, the submission will be rejected if this is a PPS assessment and A0600B is equal to [^].

Supplemental Information
Edit ID Type Severity Edit Text
-9006 Information None Any letters that are contained in this item may be submitted as lower case or upper case, but will be converted and stored as upper case by the MDS Submission System. System reports will therefore display upper case values.

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