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46. MEDPAR Beneficiary PACK 4
Primary Payer Amount
The amount of payment (rounded to whole dollars) made on
behalf of the beneficiary by a primary payer other than
Medicare, which has been applied to the covered Medicare
charges for the stay.
DB2 ALIAS : UNDEFINED
SAS ALIAS : PRPAYAMT
STANDARD ALIAS : MEDPAR_BENE_PRMRY_PYR_AMT
LENGTH : 7 SIGNED : Y
DERIVATIONS :
This field is derived by accumulating the beneficiary
primary payer payment amount that is present on any of
the claim records included in the stay (i.e., the sum of
the primary payer amounts reported on the claims that
comprise the stay).
SOURCE : NCH
EDIT RULES :
+$$$$$$$
Rounded; On-size (overflow) situation = All nines