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Data Element Name:  Mother's Medical Record Number for Newborn Child
Format-Length:  A/N - 17 Required For:  IP
Effective Date:  1/1/94 Revision Date:  September 1995
National Standard Mapping:

Electronic - 837I
X12 Loop
Ref. Des.
Data Element
Code
Description
Version 4050R 2300 REF01 128 MRN Mother's Medical Record Number Qualifier
REF02 127 Mother's Medical Record Number
Paper Form Locator Code Qualifier Description State Reporting Purposes
Institutional - UB-04 N/A N/A SPARCS Specific Data Element SPARCS Requires

Definition:

The medical record number of the newborn child's mother which links the newborn's hospital stay and the mother's stay.

Codes and Values:

  1. Must not equal zero.

  2. Must be numeric (0-9) and/or alphabetic (A-Z). Special characters are invalid.

  3. If this field is not applicable it must be blank.

Edit Applications:

     1.    Must be present when a valid newborn diagnosis code is reported in the Principal/Primary Diagnosis Code.
2. For Medicare discharges before 10/01/89 and non-Medicare discharges before 01/01/90, valid newborn codes are:
V300 V301 V310 V311 V320 V321 V330 V331

V340 V341 V350 V351 V360 V361 V370 V371

3. For Medicare discharges after 9/30/89 and non-Medicare discharges after 12/31/89, valid newborn codes are:
V3000 V3001 V301 V3100 V3101 V311 V3200 V3201 V321
V3300 V3301 V331 V3400 V3401 V341 V3500 V3501 V351
V3600 V3601 V361 V3700 V3701 V371

4. When a valid newborn diagnosis code is reported in the Principal/Primary Diagnosis Code and the mother is not admitted to the hospital, then report all 9's in the Mother's Medical Record Number for Newborn Child.

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