This variable is contained in the following files: Carrier (Encounter, Final File), Durable Medical Equipment (Encounter, Final File), Home Health Agency (Encounter, Final File), Inpatient File (Encounter, Final File), Outpatient (Encounter, Final File), Skilled Nursing Facility (Encounter, Final File)
SAS Name
LINE_NUM_ORIG
This variable identifies an individual line number on an encounter record claim, as assigned in the CMS Integrated Data Repository (IDR).
This field is included for the benefit of CMS users who wish to trace the encounter records in the IDR.
Note that this original claim line number may differ from the claim line number (CLM_LINE_NUM), which is a sequential line number on the CCW Encounter RIF to distinguish distinct services that are submitted on the same encounter record.