Beneficiary Medicare Benefit Exhausted Date

This variable is contained in the following files:

SAS Name

BENE_MDCR_BNFT_EXHST_DT

The last date for which the beneficiary had Medicare coverage. This field is completed only where benefits were exhausted before the discharge date and during the period covered by stay.

Comments

This field comes from the highest benefits exhausted date that is present on the claim records included in the stay.

It is null/missing if benefits were not exhausted during the stay.

Source: NCH