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American Medical Association
Number

An identifier for a living subject whose real identity is protected or suppressed
Justification: For public health reporting purposes, anonymous identifiers are occasionally used for protecting patient identity in reporting certain results. For instance, a state health department may choose to use a scheme for generating an anonymous identifier for reporting a patient that has had a positive human immunodeficiency virus antibody test. Anonymous identifiers can be used in PID 3 by replacing the medical record number or other nonanonymous identifier. The assigning authority for an anonymous identifier would be the state/local health department.

Class: Financial
A more precise definition of an account number: sometimes two distinct account numbers must be transmitted in the same message, one as the creditor, the other as the debitor.
Kreditorenkontonummer

Class: Financial
A more precise definition of an account number: sometimes two distinct account numbers must be transmitted in the same message, one as the creditor, the other as the debitor.
Debitorenkontonummer

Class: Financial
Temporary version of an Account Number.
Use Case: An ancillary system that does not normally assign account numbers is the first time to register a patient. This ancillary system will generate a temporary account number that will only be used until an official account number is assigned.

Advanced Practice
Registered Nurse number

An identifier that is unique to an advanced practice registered nurse within the jurisdiction of a certifying board

A unique identifier for the ancestor specimen. All child, grandchild, etc. specimens of the ancestor specimen share the same Ancestor Specimen ID.

Class: Financial
An identifier that is unique to a person’s bank card. Replaces AM, DI, DS, MS, and VS beginning in v 2.5.

A number associated with a document identifying the event of a person’s birth.

An identifier unique within the Assigning Authority that is the official legal record of a person's birth.

Primary physician office
number

Class: Financial
Use Case: needed especially for transmitting information about invoices.

A number associated with a document identifying a person’s legal change of name.

A number assigned by a person’s country of residence to identify a person’s citizenship.

An identifier that is unique to a dentist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board

Drug Enforcement
Administration registration
number

An identifier for an individual or organization relative to controlled substance regulation and transactions.
Use case: This is a registration number that identifies an individual or organization relative to controlled substance regulation and transactions.
A DEA number has a very precise and widely accepted meaning within the United States. Surprisingly, the US Drug Enforcement Administration does not solely assign DEA numbers in the United States. Hospitals have the authority to issue DEA numbers to their medical residents. These DEA numbers are based upon the hospital’s DEA number, but the authority rests with the hospital on the assignment to the residents. Thus, DEA as an Identifier Type is necessary in addition to DEA as an Assigning Authority.

Drug Furnishing or
prescriptive authority Number

An identifier issued to a health care provider authorizing the person to write drug orders
Use Case: A nurse practitioner has authorization to furnish or prescribe
pharmaceutical substances; this identifier is in component 1.

An identifier that is unique to an osteopath within the jurisdiction of a licensing board.

An identifier that is unique to a podiatrist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.

An identifier that is unique to a staff member within an enterprise (as identified by the Assigning Authority).

Jurisdictional health number
(Canada)

Class: Insurance
2 uses: a) UK jurisdictional CHI number; b) Canadian provincial health card number:

A number assigned to a member of an indigenous or aboriginal group outside of Canada

A laboratory accession id is used in the laboratory domain. The concept of accession is used in other domains such as radiology, so the LACSN is used to distinguish a lab accession id from an radiology accession id

An identifier for the insured of an insurance policy (this insured always has a subscriber), usually assigned by the insurance carrier.
Use Case: Person is covered by an insurance policy. This person may or may not be the subscriber of the policy.

A number associated with a document identifying the event of a person’s marriage.

An identifier that is unique to a medical doctor within the jurisdiction of a licensing board.
Use Case: These license numbers are sometimes used as identifiers. In some states, the same authority issues all three identifiers, e.g., medical, osteopathic, and physician assistant licenses all issued by one state medical board. For this case, the CX data type requires distinct identifier types to accurately interpret component 1. Additionally, the distinction among these license types is critical in most health care settings (this is not to convey full licensing information, which requires a segment to support all related attributes).

A number assigned to an individual who has had military duty, but is not currently on active duty. The number is assigned by the DOD or Veterans’ Affairs (VA).

An identifier that is unique to a patient within a set of medical records, not necessarily unique within an application.

Temporary Medical Record Number

Temporary version of a Medical Record Number
Use Case: An ancillary system that does not normally assign medical record numbers is the first time to register a patient. This ancillary system will generate a temporary medical record number that will only be used until an official medical record number is assigned.

Secondary physician office number

A number associated with a document identifying a person’s retention of citizenship in a particular country.

In the US, the Assigning Authority for this value is typically CMS, but it may be used by all providers and insurance companies in HIPAA related transactions.

Class: Insurance
Used for the UK NHS national identifier.
In the US, the Assigning Authority for this value is typically CMS, but it may be used by all providers and insurance companies in HIPAA related transactions.

National unique individual
identifier

Class: Insurance
In the US, the Assigning Authority for this value is typically CMS, but it may be used by all providers and insurance companies in HIPAA related transactions.

Note: In Australia is use for the Individual Healthcare identifier (IHI)

National Insurance
Organization Identifier

Class: Insurance
In Germany a national identifier for an insurance company. It is printed on the insurance card (health card). It is not to be confused with the health card number itself.
Krankenkassen-ID der KV-Karte

National Insurance Payor Identifier (Payor)

Class: Insurance
In Germany the insurance identifier addressed as the payor.
Krankenkassen-ID des Rechnungsempfängers
Use case: a subdivision issues the card with their identifier, but the main division is going to pay the invoices.

National Person Identifier where the xxx is the ISO table
3166 3-character (alphabetic) country code

An identifier that is unique to a nurse practitioner within the jurisdiction of a certifying board.

Class: Insurance
In the US, the Assigning Authority for this value is typically CMS, but it may be used by all providers and insurance companies in HIPAA related transactions.

Note: In Australia is use for the Healthcare Providers Individual identifier (HPI-I)

A number that is unique to an individual optometrist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.

An identifier that is unique to a physician assistant within the jurisdiction of a licensing board

Penitentiary/correctional
institution Number

Living Subject Enterprise Number

An identifier that is unique to a living subject within an enterprise (as identified by the Assigning Authority).

Temporary Living Subject Number

Medicare/CMS Performing Provider Identification Number

Class: Insurance
An Identifier for a provider at a location in the CMS/Medicare program. This identifier type is only unique within the context of a location. The location is not integral to the identifier, it must be derived from the message context/content (e.g., this identifier associated to a location by association in a message or a message segment.)

A unique number assigned to the document affirming that a person is a citizen of the country. In the US this number is issued only by the State Department.

Permanent Resident Card Number

A number that is unique to an individual provider, a provider group or an organization within an Assigning Authority.
Use case: This allows PRN to represent either an individual (a nurse) or a group/organization (orthopedic surgery team).

A generalized resource identifier.
Use Case: An identifier type is needed to accommodate what are commonly known as resources. The resources can include human (e.g. a respiratory therapist), non-human (e.g., a companion animal), inanimate object (e.g., an exam room), organization (e.g., diabetic education class) or any other physical or logical entity.

An identifier that is unique to a pharmacist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.

An identifier that is unique to a registered nurse within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.

An identifier for an individual enrolled with the Railroad Retirement Administration. Analogous to, but distinct from, a Social Security Number

Class: Insurance
An identifier for a provider register within the CMS/Railroad Retirement Administration/Medicare program (a subprogram of the CMS/Medicare)

Identifier for a specimen. Used when it is not known if the specimen ID is a unique specimen ID (USID) or an ancestor ID (ASID).

Class: Insurance
An identifier for a subscriber of an insurance policy which is unique for, and usually assigned by, the insurance carrier.
Use Case: A person is the subscriber of an insurance policy. The person’s family may be plan members, but are not the subscriber.

A number associated with a permit identifying a person who is a resident of a jurisdiction for the purpose of education.

A number assigned to a member of an indigenous group in Canada.
Use Case: First Nation.

Temporary Permanent
Resident (Canada)

A number associated with a document identifying a person’s temporary
permanent resident status.

Medicare/CMS (formerly HCFA)’s Universal Physician
Identification numbers

Class: Insurance
An identifier for a provider within the CMS/Medicare program. A globally unique identifier for the provider in the Medicare program.

A number associated with a document identifying a person as a visitor of a jurisdiction or country.

A number associated with a permit for a person who is granted permission to work in a country for a specified time period.