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| Data Element Name: Age Warning Flag | |||
| SPARCS Data Element Number: 76 | |||
| Record Positions: 1857 - 1857 | Format-Length: A/N - 1 | ||
| Effective Date: 1/1/1996 | Revision Date: January 1996 | ||
Definition:
A flag set when a diagnosis from a list of exceptions agreed to by the Department of Health and the New York Health Information Management Association is in conflict with normal Age-specific edits as defined in the ICD-9-CM coding reference file.
These claims have been accepted by the SPARCS system, but a warning message was returned to the hospital to flag potential reporting problems at time of submission.
A list of current exception diagnosis codes is available in Appendix N.
Codes and Values:- "1" = Age-specific conflict between reported data and ICD-9-CM reference file.
" " = NO conflict between reported data and ICD-9-CM reference file.
- Not applicable - assigned by SPARCS.
