NAME              TYPE   LENGTH
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 26.  MEDPAR SNF Qualification    PACK   4
      From Date
  
 The beginning date of the beneficiary's qualifying stay.
 For Inpatient claims, the date relates to the PPS portion of
 the inlier for which there is no utilization to benefits.
 For SNF claims, the date relates to the qualifying stay from
 a hospital that is at least two days in a row if the source
 of admission is an 'a', or at least three days in a row if
 the source of admission is other than an 'a'.
  
 DB2      ALIAS : UNDEFINED
 SAS      ALIAS : QLFYFROM
 STANDARD ALIAS : MEDPAR_SNF_QUALN_FROM_DT
  
 LENGTH         : 7    SIGNED : Y
  
 DERIVATIONS :
 This field comes from occurrence span code = 70 and
 related occurrence span from date, if present on any
 of the claim records included in the stay.  If more
 than one record has an occurrence span code = 70, with
 different span dates, teh date from the last claim
 record included in the stay is used.
  
 SOURCE         : NCH
  
 EDIT RULES :
 YYYYDDD