California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Physician 3

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1672	2490

DESCRIPTION

California license number of the radiation oncologist. Out-of-state physicians' license numbers may be entered here with the first character being an X.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er149 Physician 3

First position must be alpha, all others must be numeric except when first character is O, third or fourth character may be alpha.

If first character is X the rest of the characters may be any alpha or numeric character.

Exceptions to the alpha first position rule are:

00000000 No radiation therapy or radiation therapy consult performed

99999999 Unknown physician/license number not assigned

Blank if no information.

SOURCE

Upshift; if transmitted value is X9999999, convert it to 99999999.

If transmitted value is 88888888, then convert to blank.

UPDATE

Manual

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

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

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/26/03	Allowable value for unknown changed from X9999999 to 99999999. Converted X9999999 Phys_Rad_ONC fields to 99999999 (pre-Coding Procedure 21). 88888888 and 00000000 added to Allowable values.
7/27/05	Deleted code 88888888 from Allowable Values Err #149 per CoC standards.
2/01/06	Converted 8’s to blank. Updated Source information to handle 8’s.
7/2008	Modified Allowable values for osteopaths to allow alphanumeric character in third or fourth position.
2010	Data Changes: CCR name (Phys_Rad_ONC) changed to NAACCR name.