| DESCRIPTION |
Intermediate form of transmissions. Fields are stored in formatted form.
NCPDP coded values preceded by the NCPDP field identifier to be used
in the NCPDP transmission. Example: Compound Code is either a 1 or 0.
The NCPDP field identifier for 'Compound Code' is 'D6'. The field length
is 3 thereby allowing the identifier for that field to be included in the
data stored in that field. So, 'D61' is stored for that field.
Per VHA Directive 2004-038, this file definition should not be modified.
Raw packet is also stored.
Most fields are in Free Text format to accommodate NCPDP Standard
formatting criteria and required field lengths. Fields other than those
with decimals in the number correlate directly to the field numbers
supplied in the NCPDP Data Dictionary.
While many of the fields in this file indicate coded values, they are
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