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All Payer Claims: Data Element Comparison

Selected Items

Action	Name	Data Element ID	Version	State/Organization
	Service Provider Specialty	DCSP010	2010-03-16	Maine
	Service Provider Specialty	DCSP010	v1.2	Maine

Identifying Attributes

Data Element:	Service Provider Specialty DCSP010 - 2010-03-16 (Maine)	Service Provider Specialty DCSP010 - v1.2 (Maine)
Data Element ID	DCSP010	DCSP010
Definition	Service Provider Specialty	This field contains the specialty code assigned by the payer. Use this field to link to the provider specialty table (SP901). Since specialty codes are not unique across payers, you must also link on Payer. This field is derived from DC026 in the dental claims data.
State / Source	Maine	Maine
Data Type	varchar	CHAR
Length	10	10
Field Name	PRVSPEC	PRVSPEC
Date Required	Not Supplied	'2003-01-31
REF	DC026	Not Supplied
Warnings	Not Supplied	This field is not edited. It was used to initially assign the taxonomy code.

Codes Comparison

Data Element:	Service Provider Specialty DCSP010 - 2010-03-16 (Maine)	Service Provider Specialty DCSP010 - v1.2 (Maine)
There are no enumerated permissible values for these data elements.

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