NAME              TYPE   LENGTH
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53. Claim Patient First Initial  CHAR      1
    Middle Name

The first initial of the Medicare patient's
middle name as reported by the provider on
the claim.

NOTE1:  Prior to Version H, this field was only
        present on the IP/SNF claim record.
        Effective with Version H, this field is
        present on all claim types.

NOTE2:  For OP, HHA, Hospice and all Carrier claims,
        data was populated beginning with NCH
        weekly process date 10/3/97.   Claims pro-
        cessed prior to 10/3/97 will contain
        spaces in this field.

COMMON ALIAS: PATIENT_MIDDLE_NAME
DB2 ALIAS: 1ST_INITL_MDL_NAME
SAS ALIAS: MDL_INIT
STANDARD ALIAS: CLM_PTNT_1ST_INITL_MDL_NAME
TITLE ALIAS: PATIENT_MIDDLE_INITIAL

SOURCE:
CWF