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32. MEDPAR Beneficiary CHAR 1
Death Date Verified Code
The code indicating whether the beneficiary's date of death
has been verified (SOURCE: SSA's MBR) or originated from a
claim record.
DB2 ALIAS : UNDEFINED
SAS ALIAS : DEATHCD
STANDARD ALIAS : MEDPAR_BENE_DEATH_DT_VRFY_CD
LENGTH : 1
DERIVATIONS :
This field is derived from the enrollment database's
beneficiary source death date code, or from the presence
of a claim status code = '20' (expired) on the last
claim record included in the stay.
SOURCE : EDB,NCH
CODE TABLE : MEDPAR_BENE_DEATH_DT_VRFY_TB