SSN NUMBER - PATIENT (31)    HL7 FIELD (771.1)

Name Value
NAME SSN NUMBER - PATIENT
ITEM NUMBER 00457
DESCRIPTION
The patient's social security number (as found in the .09 field of the
PATIENT file) will be returned in this field.  The SSN NUMBER will be in 
the internal (9 digit or digits followed by a P) format.
SEGMENT PID
SEQUENCE 19
VERSION
MAXIMUM LENGTH 16
DATA TYPE ST
REQUIRED? NOT REQUIRED