Pennsylvania Code
Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part VI - Health Care Cost Containment Council
Chapter 913 - PAYOR DATA REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Subchapter D - INTERPRETATIONS
Appendix A - PENNSYLVANIA UNIFORM CLAIMS AND BILLING FORM

Universal Citation: 28 PA Code ยง A
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 12, March 23, 2024

HOSPITAL/AMBULATORY SERVICE FACILITY PAYMENTS AND PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS REPORTING MANUAL

HC-87-101

VOLUME B

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Facility and Physician Payments Reporting Manual.
II.Header Record Manual.
III.Trailer Record Manual.
IV.Tape Format for Facility and Physician Payments Reporting.

INDEX

DATA ELEMENT NAME FIELD #
Certification/SSN/Health Insurance Claim Number20
Date of Admission/Start of Care/Date of Service6
Date of Discharge/End of Care/Last Date of Service7
Identifier of Physician10
Other Payments15
Patient Control Number17
Patient's Birthdate4
Patient - Uniform Identification3
Patient Relationship to Insured19
Patient's Sex5
Payor Group Number16
Place of Service2
Primary Payor Payments14
Procedure Code8
Procedure Coding Method Used18
Record Type1
Reserve Field21
Total Charges13
Type of Professional Service11
Uniform Identifier of Health Care Facility9
Units of Service12

I. REPORTING MANUAL

FIELD: 1
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Record Type
DEFINITION:Indicator distinguishing between the different types of records.
PROCEDURE:1 = Facility payment record.
2 = Physician payment record.
3 = Continuing physician payment record. (When individual patient records contain more than one procedure/service, this field indicates that this record is a continuation of the previous record.)
4 = Continuing facility payment record. (When individual patient records contain more than one procedure/service, this field indicates that this record is a continuation of the previous record.)
5 = This record is a delivery which includes newborn payments.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 1 character
RECORD POSITION:1
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 2
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Place of Service
DEFINITION:Type of setting.
PROCEDURE:1 = Hospital Inpatient
2 = Hospital Outpatient
3 = Other Ambulatory Service Facility
4 = Unknown
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 1 character
RECORD POSITION:2
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 3
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Uniform Patient I.D.
DEFINITION:Patient's Social Security Number.
PROCEDURES:Left justify. No dashes. If the patient's Social Security Number is unknown, fill this field with zeroes.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 9 characters.
RECORD POSITION:3-11
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, Item 2a.
FIELD: 4
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Patient's Birthdate.
DEFINITION:The date of birth of the patient.
PROCEDURE:MMDDYYYY. If full birthdate is unknown, place the patient's year of birth in this field. Right justify. No dashes.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 8 characters.
RECORD POSITION:12-19
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, Item 12 or HCFA 1500, Item 2
FIELD: 5
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Patient's Sex.
DEFINITION:The sex of the patient as recorded at the date of admission, outpatient service, or start of care.
PROCEDURE:M = Male or 1 = Male
F = Female 2 = Female
U = Unknown 3 = Unknown
M, F, U is the preferred method. Data submitted in the format of a 1, 2, or 3 will be converted to M, F, or U by the Council. Edit reports to data sources will contain M, F, U.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 1 character.
RECORD POSITION:20
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 13 or HCFA 1500, item 5
FIELD: 6
REQUIRED: Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Date of Admission/Start of Care/First Date of Service
DEFINITION:The date that the patient was admitted to the provider for inpatient care, outpatient services, start of care or the beginning date of the period covered by this bill.
PROCEDURE:MMDDYY.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 6 characters.
RECORD POSITION:21-26
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 15 or HCFA 1500, item 20 (the first 6 characters of this field.)
FIELD: 7
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Date of Discharge/End of Care/Last Date of Service
DEFINITION:The ending service date of the period covered by this bill or the date that the patient was discharged from the provider's care.
PROCEDURE:MMDDYY.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 6 characters.
RECORD POSITION:27-32
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 22 (the last 6 characters in this field.) or HCFA 1500, item 20 (the last 6 characters of this field.)
FIELD: 8
REQUIRED:Physician Payments Reporting Only (Blank fill for Facility Payments Records.)
DATA ELEMENT:Procedure Code
DEFINITION:Surgical Procedure Code, if any. Other procedure codes when available.
PROCEDURE:The code structure must be consistent with the information provided in field 18. This field is required if field 11 is equal to an 02 or 05. This field is optional if field 11 is equal to an 01, 03, or 04. Use ICD-9-CM, HCPCS or CPT-4 codes. Left justify. Use decimal. Blank fill right. If unknown, blank fill.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 9 characters
RECORD POSITION:33-41
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 84 or HCFA 1500, item 24d
FIELD: 9
REQUIRED:Facility Payments Reporting Only (Blank fill for Physician Payments Records.)
DATA ELEMENT:Uniform Identifier for Health Care Facility
DEFINITION:Medicaid Number, Federal Tax I.D. Number, or Medicare Number.
PROCEDURE:Character 1: 1 or A = Medicaid Number 2 or B = Tax I.D. Number 3 or C = Medicare Number
Characters 2-11: Medicaid Number, Tax I.D. Number, or Medicare Number. Left justify.
The Medicaid Number is the preferred number. Data Sources using other numbering systems must provide the Council with a Facility I.D. Dictionary on tape according to a format approved by the Council. The facility I.D. dictionary must have one number for each separately licensed facility.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:42-52
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 6
FIELD: 10
REQUIRED:Physician Payments Reporting Only (Blank fill for Facility Payments Records.)
DATA ELEMENT:Identifier of Physician
DEFINITION:PA State License Number, Social Security Number, or Tax I.D. of the Physician. Other Unique Provider Numbers may be acceptable, however, prior approval must be obtained from the Council.
PROCEDURE:Character 1: 1 or A = PA State License 2 or B = S.S. Number 3 or C = Tax I.D. Number 4 or D = Unique Provider Number
Characters 2-10 = PA State License, S.S. Number, Tax I.D., Unique Provider Number
Characters 11-20 = Physician Last Name
Characters 21-22 = Physician First and Middle Initial
Left Justify, Blank fill. The Pa. State license number is the preferred number. Data sources using other numbering systems must provide the Council with a dictionary of physician I.D. numbers on tape according to a format approved by the Council. (The approved format is described in Appendix B.) The Physician I.D. dictionary must have one number for each separately licensed physician.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 22 characters
RECORD POSITION:53-74
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
REFERENCE:HCFA 1500, item 33.
FIELD: 11
REQUIRED:Physician Payments Reporting Only (Zero fill for Facility Payments Records.)
DATA ELEMENT:Type of Professional Service
DEFINITION:The type of service that the physician performed for which payment is expected.
PROCEDURE:01 = Medical, Consulting, Psychiatric (Includes drug abuse and alcohol treatment.) 02 = Surgical, Obstetrics 03 = Diagnostic, Radiologic 04 = Anesthetic 05 = Assisted in Surgery
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 2 characters
RECORD POSITION:75-76
FORMAT: Numeric
REFERENCE:HCFA 1500, item 24c
FIELD: 12
REQUIRED:Physician Payments Reporting Only (Zero fill for Facility Payments records.)
DATA ELEMENTS:Units of Service
DEFINITION: If available, enter the total number of identical procedures or services, such as hospital visits.
PROCEDURE:Right justify. Fill with zeroes left.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 3 characters
RECORD POSITION:77-79
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:HCFA 1500, item 24g
FIELD: 13
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Total Charges
DEFINITION:Total charges pertaining to the current billing period as entered in the statement covers period.
PROCEDURES:Facility total Charges = Place total charges as stated in the definition above. Physician total Charges = Place the total charge for the procedure or service indicated in fields 11 and 8. When the physician/professional or facility has provided more than one procedure or service, more than one record should be provided. The multiple records should be indicated as follows:
1. In field 1, place the number 3 or 4 which indicates that this record is a continuation of the previous record.
2. Complete the following fields: a. 8 - Procedure Code b.11 - Type of Professional Service. c.13 - Total Charges d.14 - Primary Payor Payments e.15 - Other Payments
3. All other fields in this record should be duplicated depending upon the format of each field. Right justify. No decimal.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 8 characters Character 1-6 = dollars Character 7-8 = cents
RECORD POSITIONS:80-87
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 53 (Last line of this field.) or HCFA 1500, item 24f
FIELD: 14
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Primary Payor Payments
DEFINITION:Total of all payments made by the payor to the health care facility or professional for services rendered to the patient for the episode of illness indicated in fields 6 and 7.
PROCEDURE:Facility payments = Place total Primary Payor Payments as stated in the definition above. Physician payments = Place the total Primary Payor Payments for the procedure or service indicated in fields 11 and 8. When the physician/professional or facility has provided more than one procedure or service, more than one record should be provided. The multiple records should be indicated as follows:
1. In field 1, place the number 3 or 4 which indicates that this record is a continuation of the previous record.
2. Complete the following fields: a. 8 - Procedure Code b.11 - Type of Professional Service c.13 - Total Charges d.14 - Primary Payor Payments e.15 - Other Payments
3. All other fields in this record should be duplicated depending upon the format of each field. Right justify. No decimal.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 8 characters Character 1-6 = dollars Character 7-8 = cents
RECORD POSITION:88-95
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 55
FIELD: 15
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Other Payments
DEFINITION:The sum of deductible amounts and co-pay amounts that are attributed to the patients responsibility or other secondary payors.
PROCEDURE:Facility other payments = Place total of Other Payments as stated in the definition above. Physician other payments = Place the total of Other Payments for the procedure or service indicated in fields 11 and 8. When the physician/professional or facility has provided more than one procedure or service, more than one record should be provided. The multiple records should be indicated as follows:
1. In field 1, place the number 3 or 4 which indicates that this record is a continuation of the previous record.
2. Complete the following fields: a. 8 - Procedure Code b.11 - Type of Professional Service c.13 - Total Charges d.14 - Primary Payor Payments e.15 - Other Payments
3. All other fields in this record should be duplicated depending upon the format of each field. Right justify. No Decimal.
FIELD SIZE:1 field 8 characters Character 1-6 = dollars Character 7-8 = cents
RECORD POSITION:96-103
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 16
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Payor Group Number
DEFINITION:The identification number, control number, or code assigned by the carrier or plan administrator to identify the group under which the individual is covered.
PROCEDURE:Left justify.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 17 characters
RECORD POSITION:104-120
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 70 or HCFA 1500, item 8
FIELD: 17
REQUIRED:Facility Payments Reporting Only (Blank fill for Physician Payments Records.)
DATA ELEMENT:Patient Control Number
DEFINITION:Patient's unique alphanumeric number assigned by the carrier to facilitate retrieval of individual case records and posting of the payment. This field is optional.
PROCEDURE:Left justify.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 17 characters
RECORD POSITION:121-137
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
FIELD: 18
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Procedure Coding Method Used
DEFINITION:An indicator that identifies the coding method used for procedure coding on this bill.
PROCEDURE:1-3 = Reserved for state assignment 4 = CPT-4 5 = HCPCS (HCFA Common Procedure Coding System) 6-8 = Reserved for National assignment 9 = ICD-9-CM
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 1 character
RECORD POSITION:138
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 82
FIELD: 19
REQUIRED: Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Patient's Relationship to Insured
DEFINITION:A code indicating the relationship of the patient to the identified insured.
PROCEDURE: Use coding as follows: 1 = Self 2 = Spouse 3 = Child 4 = Other Right justify. Zero fill left.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 2 characters
RECORD POSITION:139-140
FORMAT:Numeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 67 a or HCFA 1500, item 7
FIELD: 20
REQUIRED:Facility and Physician Payments Reporting
DATA ELEMENT:Certificate/Social Security Number/Health Insurance Claim/Identification Number.
DEFINITION:Insured's unique identification number assigned by the payor organization.
PROCEDURE:Left justify.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 16 characters
RECORD POSITION:141-156
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
REFERENCE:UB-82, item 68 or HCFA 1500, item 6
FIELD: 21
DATA ELEMENT:Reserve Field
DEFINITION:To be reserved for future use by the Council.
FIELD SIZE: 1 field filler, 144 characters
RECORD POSITION:157-300
FORMAT:Alphanumeric

II. HEADER RECORD
FIELD: 1
DATA ELEMENT:Data Source Identifier
DEFINITION:Number identifying the data source. Third party payors - use your payor number.
PROCEDURE:Left justify. Blank fill right.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 25 characters
RECORD POSITION:1-25
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
FIELD: 2
DATA ELEMENT:Data Source Name/Address
DEFINITIONS:Name and address of the data source.
PROCEDURE:Left justify. Fill with blanks right. Space between lines of name and address.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 4 lines, 100 characters
RECORD POSITION:26-125
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
FIELD: 3
DATA ELEMENT:Period Covered First Day
DEFINITION:The first day of the quarter from which the data provided on this tape was contained.
PROCEDURE:MMDDYY.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 6 characters
RECORD POSITION:126-131
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 4
DATA ELEMENT:Period Covered Last Day
DEFINITION:The last day of the quarter from which the data provided on this tape was contained.
PROCEDURE:MMDDYY.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 6 characters
RECORD POSITION:132-137
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 5
DATA ELEMENT:Run Date
DEFINITION:The date that the data source produced this tape.
PROCEDURE:MMDDYY.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 6 characters
FIELD POSITION:138-143
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 6
DATA ELEMENT:Filler
FIELD SIZE:1 field filler, 157 characters
RECORD POSITION:144-300
FORMAT:Alphanumeric
III. TRAILER RECORD
FIELD: 1
DATA ELEMENT:Number of records on this tape.
DEFINITION:Total number of records contained on this tape, not including the Header and Trailer Records. This number should count each multi-page as one record.
PROCEDURE:Right justify.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 10 characters
RECORD POSITION:1-10
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 2
DATA ELEMENT:Number of Patients on This Tape.
DEFINITION:Total number of patients contained on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Right justify.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 10 characters
RECORD POSITION:11-20
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 3
DATA ELEMENT:Total Physician Charges
DEFINITION:Total of all Physician Charges on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Sum of all fields 13 (Total Charges) when field 1 is equal to 2. Right justify. The last two digits are for cents.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:21-31
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 4
DATA ELEMENT:Total Facility Charges
DEFINITION:Total of all Facility Charges on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Sum of all fields 13 (Total Charges) when field 1 is equal to 1. Right justify. The last two digits are for cents.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:32-42
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 5
DATA ELEMENT:Total Physician Payments
DEFINITION:Total of all Physician Payments on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Sum of all fields 14 (Primary Payor Payments) when field 1 is equal to 2. Right justify. The last two digits are for cents.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:43-53
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 6
DATA ELEMENT:Total Facility Payments
DEFINITION:Total of all Facility Payments on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Sum of all fields 14 (Primary Payor Payments) when field 1 is equal to 1. Right justify. The last two digits are for cents.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:54-64
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 7
DATA ELEMENT:Total Other Payments (Physician)
DEFINITION:Total of all Other Payments to Physicians on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Sum of all fields 15 (Other Payments) when field 1 is equal to 2. Right justify. The last two digits are for cents.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:65-75
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 8
DATA ELEMENT:Total Other Payments (Facility)
DEFINITION:Total of all Other Payments to Facilities on this tape.
PROCEDURE:Sum of all fields 15 (Other Payments) when field 1 is equal to 1.
FIELD SIZE:1 field, 11 characters
RECORD POSITION:76-86
FORMAT:Numeric
FIELD: 9
DATA ELEMENT:Filler
FIELD SIZE:1 field filler, 214 characters
RECORD POSITION:87-300
FORMAT:Alphanumeric

DATA ELEMENTDATA ELEMENT DESCRIPTION POSITION PICTUREFORMAT
FROM TO
HEADER RECORD
1Data Source Identifier1 25X(25)Left justify. Blank fill right.
2Data Source Name26 125X(100)4 lines. 25 characters each.
3Period Covered First Day1261319(6)MMDDYY.
4Period Covered Last Day1321379(6)MMDDYY.
5Run Date1381439(6)MMDDYY. Date that this tape was created.
6Filler144300X(157)

TAPE FORMAT FOR HOSPITAL/AMBULATORY SERVICE FACILITY PAYMENTS AND PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS REPORTING MANUAL HC-87-101B

DATA ELEMENTDATA ELEMENT DESCRIPTION POSITION PICTUREFORMAT
FROM TO
1Record Type19(1)1 = Facility payments record. 2 = Physician payments record. 3 = Continuing physician payments record. 4 = Continuing facility payments record. 5 = Delivery/ newborn record.
2Place of Service29(1)1 = Hospital Inpatient 2 = Hospital Outpatient 3 = Ambulatory Service Facility 4 = Unknown
3Uniform Patient Identifier3119(9)If unknown, zero fill.
4Patient's Date of Birth12199(8)MMDDYYYY. If the patient date of birth is unknown, place the patient's year of birth in this field. Right justify.
5Patient's Sex20X(1)M = Male, F = Female, U = Unknown 1 = Male, 2 = Female, 3 = Unknown.
6Date of Admission/ Start of Care/Date of Service21269(6)MMDDYY.
7Date of Discharge/ End of Care/Last Date of Service2732 9(6) MMDDYY.
8Procedure Code3341 X(9) Procedure code. Left justify. Use decimal. See manual for instructions.
9Uniform Identifier of Health Care Facility4252 X(11)Left justify. Blank fill right.
10Identifier of Physician5374 X(22)Left justify. Blank fill. See Manual for instructions.
11Type of Professional Service7576 9(2) Type of service performed by the professional: 01 = Medical, Consulting, Psychiatric, (Including drug abuse and alcohol treatment.) 02 = Surgical, Obstetrics 03 = Diagnostic, Radiologic 04 = Anesthetic 05 = Assisted in surgery
12Units of Service77799(3) Right justify. Fill with zeroes left.
13Total Charges8087 9(8) 6 dollar characters, 2 cent characters. Right justify. No decimal.
14Primary Payor Payments8895 9(8) 6 dollar characters, 2 cent characters. Right justify. No decimal.
15Other Payments961039(8) 6 dollar characters, 2 cent characters. Right justify. No decimal.
16Payor Group Number104120X(17)Left justify.
17Patient Control Number121137X(17)Left justify.
18Procedure Coding Method Used1389(1) 1 - 3 Reserved for state assignment. 4 = CPT-4 5 = HCPCS 6 - 8 = Reserved for national assignment. 9 = ICD-9-CM
19Patient's Relation- ship to Insured1391409(2) Right justify. 1 = Self 2 = Spouse 3 = Child 4 = Other
20Certification/SSN/ Health Insurance Claim Number141156X(16)Left justify.
21Reserve Field157300X(144)To be reserved for future use by the Council.
*All numeric fields should be initialized to 0, and alpha numeric fields initialized to blank, before writing data to tape. Therefore, these characters (or blanks) will remain in fields where data is missing.

DATA ELEMENTDATA ELEMENT DESCRIPTION POSITION PICTUREFORMAT
FROMTO
TRAILER RECORD
1Number of Records on This Tape1109(10)Total Number of patient discharge records on this tape.
2Number of Patients on This Tape11209(10) Total number of patients on this tape.
3Total Physician Charges21319(11) Total of all physician charges on this tape.
4Total Facility Charges32429(11) Total of all facility charges on this tape.
5Total Physician Payments43539(11) Total of all physician payments on this tape.
6Total Facility Payments54649(11) Total of all facility payments on this tape.
7Total Other Payments (Physician)65759(11) Total of all physician other payments on this tape.
8Total Other Payments (Facility)76869(11) Total of all facility other payments on this tape.
9Filler873009(214)

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