NAME              TYPE   LENGTH
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70. Care Plan Oversight (CPO)    CHAR      6
    Provider Number

Effective with NCH weekly process date 3/7/97,
the Medicare provider number of the HHA or Hospice
rendering Medicare covered services during
period the physician is providing care plan
oversight. The purpose of this field is to
ensure compliance with the CPO requirement that
the beneficiary must be receiving covered HHA or
Hospice services during the billing period.  There
can be only one CPO provider number per claim, and
no other services but CPO physician services are
to be reported on the claim.  This field is only
present on the non-DMERC processed carrier claim.

NOTE:  On the Version G format, this field is stored
as a redefinition of the NEAR_LINE_ORGNL_BENE_CAN_NUM
(the first 3 positions contain 'CPO', followed by
the 6-position provider number).  During the
Version H conversion the data was moved to this
dedicated field.

DB2 ALIAS: CPO_PRVDR_NUM
SAS ALIAS: CPO_PROV
STANDARD ALIAS: CPO_PRVDR_NUM
TITLE ALIAS: CPO_PRVDR

SOURCE:
CWF