| DESCRIPTION |
Per VHA Directive 2005-044, this file has been "locked down" by Data
This file holds the CMS (HCFA) provider type data.
In 2001, ANSI ASC X12N asked the National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC)
to become the official maintainer of the Health Care Provider Taxonomy
List (provider type).
PERSON CLASS is to be used for identifying provider types for roll-ups.
Patches need to review the technical description on field 90002.
Standardization (DS). The file definition (i.e. data dictionary) shall
not be modified. All additions, changes and deletions to entries in the
file shall be done by Enterprise Reference Terminology (ERT) using the
Master File Server (MFS), provided by Common Services (CS). Creating
and/or editing locally defined fields in the file are not permitted. Use
of locally defined fields that were created prior to the VHA Directive's
2005-044 effective date shall not be supported.
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