COMBAT VETERAN STATUS ICR (4156)

Name

Value

NUMBER

4156

IA #

4156

DATE CREATED

2003/07/21

CUSTODIAL PACKAGE

REGISTRATION

USAGE

Supported

TYPE

Routine

DBIC APPROVAL STATUS

APPROVED

ROUTINE

DGCV

NAME

COMBAT VETERAN STATUS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

As per directive 2002-049 patients who qualify as
Combat Veterans will be treated for two years after separation even in the
absence of supporting evidence that their condiditons are combat related.
This supported DBIA covers an API that will be used during patient lookups,
Registration, Billing, Outpatient Pharmacy and treatment checkout that will
provide whether or not the veteran being processed has been assigned combat
status and whether that combat status is still in effect.

STATUS

Active

DURATION

Till Otherwise Agreed

DGCV

COMPONENT/ENTRY POINT

COMPONENT DESCRIPTION

VARIABLES

$$CVEDT(DFN,DGDT)

This API will take the DFN as an input parameter.  If
eligibility is to be determined for a date other than the current date it may
be entered as an optional input parameter.  Output is whether or not the
veteran has CV status and if so, the end date of the eligibility.

VARIABLES

TYPE

VARIABLES DESCRIPTION

DFN

Input

Patient file IEN

DGDT

Input

(optional)  The date for which eligiblity is to be
determined.

$$CVEDT

Output

This variable is a "^" delimited.

The first piece is -1/0/1
-1 if the determination cannot be made due to a non-valid DFN
0 if never given combat veteran eligibility.
1 if the veteran was ever given combat veteran eligibility.

The second piece is the Combat Vet End Date (if ever given eligibility).

The third piece is 1/0
1 if still eligible on the specified date (either passed in to the
API or TODAY by default), 0 if not.  This piece will be populated only if the
1st piece is equal to 1.