Analysis of the Expansion of the Legal Business Name (LBN), Practice Location and Special Payment Address Fields in the Viable Medicare System (VMS)
Upon implementation of PECOS Release 7.1, PECOS will transmit daily systems updates to VMS. Expanding VMS’ LBN name field to 60 characters and VMS’s address lines 1and 2 fields to 55 characters will allow the LBNs and address lines 1 and 2 to be entered from PECOS by the
NSC MAC into the VMS DMEPOS supplier file without truncating or abbreviating, eliminating future errors, mismatches and postal service misunderstandings. It is not CMS’s intent to use the 60 character LBN field, or the 55 character practice location and special payments address line 1 and 2 fields for all external interfaces. In addition, the 60 character LBN field complies with ANSI X12N 5010 requirements and is 10 characters less than field ranges in the PECOS system
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: April 28, 2010
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