Stream: CARIN IG for Blue Button®
Topic: Patient Identifier - MedRecNum, Patacctnum
Suma Addagadde (Mar 04 2021 at 15:44):
@Pat Taylor , @Amol Vyas , @Nagarjuna Sanivarapu , @Igor Sirkovich , @Shailesh Prabhu, @Zak Guler, @Suma Vishnumoorthy
This is in reference to the 2 identifiers that are in Patient resource , MedRecNum & PatAcctNum
These identifier data is unique for each member for a specific claim.
These values keep changing every time a new claim is created for a member and seems this data does not truly serve the purpose as a patient identifier
These 2 identifiers are categorized as “Must Support”. Please let us know what should be the guidance on this and if we really need to update Patient data every time we receive a claim
Suma Addagadde (Mar 05 2021 at 12:33):
Patient Identifier - MedRecNum, Patacctnum
Suma Addagadde (Mar 05 2021 at 12:34):
Patient Identifier - MedRecNum, Patacctnum
Pat Taylor (Mar 05 2021 at 22:15):
@Suma Addagadde You ask a good question. I'll take it back to the CARIN team. @Amol Vyas
Suma Addagadde (Mar 11 2021 at 01:25):
Thanks Pat. look forward to hearing from you on this
Pat Taylor (Mar 12 2021 at 21:50):
@Suma Addagadde Hi Suma, the recommendation is to map MedRecNum & PatAcctNum to EOB.supportingInfo instead of to the Patient Resource. They will be marked as MS, meaning if you have the data it should be provided. However, this solution prevents you from updating Patient data every time we receive a claim. Does that work for you? @Amol Vyas
Suma Addagadde (Mar 12 2021 at 23:49):
Thank you Pat. Yes, this would work for us
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