NAME TYPE LENGTH
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29. MEDPAR Discharge PACK 4
Date
The date on which the beneficiary was discharged or died.
NOTE: This field comes from the highest claim thru date
that is present on the claim records included in the stay,
where the claim status code is other than '30' (still
patient) on the last claim record included in the stay.
Inpatient claims will always have a discharge date; SNF
claims could have a zero date.
DB2 ALIAS : UNDEFINED
SAS ALIAS : DSCHRGDT
STANDARD ALIAS : MEDPAR_DSCHRG_DT
LENGTH : 7 SIGNED : Y
SOURCE : NCH
EDIT RULES :
YYYYDDD