Blue Button 2.0 Implementation Guide

Carrier or MAC Number

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  <id value="carr-num"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2>Carrier or MAC Number</h2><div><p>The identification number assigned by CMS to a carrier authorized to process claims from a physician or supplier. Effective July 2006, the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) began replacing the existing carriers and started processing physician or supplier claim records for states assigned to its jurisdiction. Source: https://bluebutton.cms.gov/resources/variables/carr_num</p>
</div><p>This value set includes codes from the following code systems:</p><ul><li>Include all codes defined in <a href="CodeSystem-carr-num.html"><code>https://bluebutton.cms.gov/assets/ig/CodeSystem-carr-num</code></a></li></ul></div>
  </text>
  <url value="https://bluebutton.cms.gov/assets/ig/ValueSet-carr-num"/>
  <version value="1.1.1"/>
  <name value="Carrier or MAC Number"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <date value="2018-11-27T15:56:35+00:00"/>
  <description
               value="The identification number assigned by CMS to a carrier authorized to process claims from a physician or supplier. Effective July 2006, the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) began replacing the existing carriers and started processing physician or supplier claim records for states assigned to its jurisdiction. Source: https://bluebutton.cms.gov/resources/variables/carr_num"/>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system value="https://bluebutton.cms.gov/assets/ig/CodeSystem-carr-num"/>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>