California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

NPI--Physician Other 1

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1630

None. State Requestor

DESCRIPTION

The NPI (National Provider Identifier) code of the physicians other than attending and following physicians.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

10

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er296 NPI--Physician Other 1

Either valid NPI assigned 10-digit numeric codes (9-digit number plus 1 check digit) or all blanks are allowed.

SOURCE

N/A

UPDATE

Manual

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes; record with the earliest admission date for this tumor.

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

8/06 New data item for 2007
2010

Data Changes:  Improved wording of allowable values. Removed invalid link to NPI which was http://new.cms.hhs.gov/nationalProvIdentStand/Downloads/NPIcheckdigit.pdf