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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