Identifies the duration, identifying USOC, contract date or contract identification number of any variable term agreement that may be offered by a provider.
NOTE 1: When the ASC-EC field is populated, this identifies the duration, identifying USOC, contract date or contract identification number of any variable term agreement that may be offered by ASC-EC.
USAGE: This field is optional.
DATA CHARACTERISTICS: 17 alpha/numeric characters
EXAMPLES: 3 6
NOTE 1: This example illustrates a numeric value but is left justified since it is treated as text.
V T P P P
0 8 2 0 8 9
NOTE 1: This example illustrates a numeric value but is left justified since it is treated as text.
C 1 2 3 4 5
3 6 1 0 9 1 4 8 9 B L K H 0 0 0 1