Other Plan Months

SAS Name
OTH _PLAN_MOS

Number of months the beneficiary was enrolled in other MCO Managed Care Plan in the calendar year.

Comments

This variable is the number of months during the year when the monthly TAF managed care plan type code in any of the 16 possible monthly plan type fields = 20 (Other). There are 192 possible plan type variables in a calendar year: 12 months with 16 managed care plan type variables per month = 192 variables; MC_PLAN_TYPE_CD_01_01–MC_PLAN_TYPE_CD_16_12.

This variable is included in the TAF DE file.

Values: 0-12 (Number of months)

Source: T-MSIS annual demographic and eligibility TAF