00461
Policy Number
2003-08-22
Definition: This field contains the individual policy number of the insured to uniquely identify this patient_s plan. For special types of insurance numbers, there are also special fields in the IN2 segment for Medicaid, Medicare, Champus (i.e., IN2-6 - Medicare Health Ins Card Number, IN2-8 - Medicaid Case Number, IN2-10 - Military ID Number). But we recommend that this field (IN1-36 - Policy Number) be filled even when the patient_s insurance number is also passed in one of these other fields.