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One row per saved payer mailing address. A practice can hold more than one address for the same payer. This is an address book kept against the Claim.MD payer directory rather than against the practice’s own saved payer list, so payer_id resolves on roughly two thirds of rows. The rest are directory payers the practice holds a mailing address for but has never saved as a payer of its own. claimmd_payer_id is populated on every row, so use it rather than payer_id when you need payer identity across the whole table. This table’s columns and relationships are shown in the Hosted Database schema.
claimmd_payer_id is the Claim.MD payer directory code and is held as text. Not every value is numeric - PAPER, EAP20, and 00060 are all valid codes - so leading zeros are significant and it should not be cast to a number.
zip formatting is inconsistent in the source. Both five-digit and nine-digit forms appear, with and without a hyphen, so normalize it before matching on it.
For reporting on but not limited to:
  • Where paper claims are mailed for a given payer
  • Payers a practice holds an address for but has not saved
  • Practices holding several addresses for the same payer
  • Checking address completeness before a paper claim run
  • Mailing addresses by state, to spot regional payer coverage

Mailing addresses with their payer

Addresses for directory payers the practice has not saved

Payers with more than one address on file

Addresses missing a city or state

If you have any questions about this topic please reach out to Elation Support Portal with the subject line HDB - <your_question>