Beginning date of beneficiary's qualifying SNF stay

This variable is contained in the following files:

Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR)

SAS Name

SNF_QUALN_FROM_DT

The beginning date of the beneficiary's qualifying stay.

For Inpatient claims, the date relates to the prospective payment system (PPS) portion of the inlier for which there is no utilization to benefits. For skilled nursing facility (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'.

Comments

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, the date from the last claim record included in the stay is used.

Source: NCH