This variable represents the beginning date of the beneficiary’s acute hospital at home care stay.
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This field was new in 2021.
This field is derived when the occurrence span code (CLM_OCRNC_SPAN_CD) is equal to “82” on any of the claim records included in the stay, populate the date in (CLM_OCRNC_SPAN_FROM_DT) to this field. If more than one record has an occurrence span code equal to “82”, with different span dates, the date from the last claim record included in the stay is used.
This field was new in 2021.
This field is derived when the occurrence span code (CLM_OCRNC_SPAN_CD) is equal to “82” on any of the claim records included in the stay, populate the date in (CLM_OCRNC_SPAN_FROM_DT) to this field. If more than one record has an occurrence span code equal to “82”, with different span dates, the date from the last claim record included in the stay is used.
Source: NCH