Indirect Medical Education (IME) Amount ($)

SAS Name
IME_AMT

The amount of additional payment (rounded to whole dollars) made to teaching hospitals for Indirect Medical Education (IME) for the stay.

Comments

This field is derived by accumulating the value amount associated with value code = 18 that is present on any of the claim records included in the stay (i.e., the sum of value code 18 amounts reported on the claims that comprise the stay).

This amount is already included in the MEDPAR Medicare payment amount (field called PMT_AMT).

Source: MedPAR (derived)