HL7 V2 | TABLE 0203
Table 0203: Identifier Type
HL7-defined table of codes specifying the type of identififier.
- Type
- HL7-defined
- Codes
- 147
- Introduced
- HL7 v2.3
- Used in
- CX.5, PPN.13, XCN.13, XON.7
- FHIR code system
http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203- THO code system
http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203- OID
2.16.840.1.113883.18.108
HL7-defined: The standard fixes the values. PipeHat flags codes outside this list as warnings.
Codes
| Code | Meaning | Definition | FHIR code | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AC | Accreditation/Certification Identifier | Identifier that has been assigned by an accreditation or certification organization in specific fields, indicating a recognized skill | — | N |
ACSN | Accession ID | Accession Identifier | ACSN | |
AIN | Animal Identification Number (US Official) | A numbering system for the official identification of individual animals in the United States that provides a nationally unique identification number for each animal. The first two numbers on a tag are the numbers assigned to a specific State. | — | N |
AM | American Express | AM | ||
AMA | American Medical Association Number | A physician identifier assigned by the AMA. | AMA | |
AN | Account number | Account An identifier that is unique to an account. | AN | |
ANC | Account number Creditor | A more precise definition of an account number | ANC | |
AND | Account number debitor | A more precise definition of an account number | AND | |
ANON | Anonymous identifier | An identifier for a living subject whose real identity is protected or suppressed | ANON | |
ANT | Temporary Account Number | Temporary version of an Account Number | ANT | |
APRN | Advanced Practice Registered Nurse number | An identifier that is unique to an advanced practice registered nurse within the jurisdiction of a certifying board | APRN | |
ASID | Ancestor Specimen ID | A unique identifier for the ancestor specimen. | ASID | |
BA | Bank Account Number | BA | ||
BC | Bank Card Number | An identifier that is unique to a person's bank card | BC | |
BCFN | Birth Certificate File Number | The identifier used within the jurisdictional vital records office file system as an auxiliary means of accessing the record associated with the birth certificate. | — | N |
BCT | Birth Certificate | A number associated with a document identifying the event of a person's birth | BCT | |
BR | Birth registry number | An identifier unique within the Assigning Authority that is the official legal record of a person's birth. | BR | |
BRN | Breed Registry Number | BRN | ||
BSNR | Primary physician office number | BSNR | ||
CAAI | Consumer Application Account Identifier | An identifier for the consumer (e.g., patient, caregiver) for an application such as a portal or App. | — | N |
CC | Cost Center number | CC | ||
CONM | Change of Name Document | A number associated with a document identifying a person's legal change of name. | CONM | |
CY | County number | CY | ||
CZ | Citizenship Card | A number assigned by a person's country of residence to identify a person's citizenship. | CZ | |
DC | Death Certificate ID | The identifier assigned to a death certificate, and printed on the death certificate when issued by a jurisdictional vital records office | — | |
DCFN | Death Certificate File Number | The identifier used within the jurisdictional vital records office file system as an auxiliary means of accessing the record associated with the death certificate. | — | |
DDS | Dentist license number | An identifier that is unique to a dentist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board | DDS | |
DEA | Drug Enforcement Administration registration number | An identifier for an individual or organization relative to controlled substance regulation and transactions. | DEA | |
DFN | Drug Furnishing or prescriptive authority Number | An identifier issued to a health care provider authorizing the person to write drug orders | DFN | |
DI | Diner's Club card | DI | ||
DL | Driver's license number | DL | ||
DN | Doctor number | DN | ||
DO | Osteopathic License number | An identifier that is unique to an osteopath within the jurisdiction of a licensing board. | DO | |
DP | Diplomatic Passport | A number assigned to a diplomatic passport. | DP | |
DPM | Podiatrist license number | An identifier that is unique to a podiatrist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board. | DPM | |
DR | Donor Registration Number | DR | ||
DS | Discover Card | DS | ||
DSG | Diagnostic Study Group | Unique Identifier that groups several orders that are to be performed together. | — | N |
EI | Employee number | A number that uniquely identifies an employee to an employer. | EI | |
EN | Employer number | EN | ||
ESN | Staff Enterprise Number | An identifier that is unique to a staff member within an enterprise (as identified by the Assigning Authority). | ESN | |
ETIN | Electronic Transmitter Identification Number | A unique identifier usually assigned by a health plan or clearinghouse to an organization or provider that electronically transmits healthcare transactions, such as claims, eligibility inquiries, or remittance advices. | — | |
FDR | Fetal Death Report ID | The identifier assigned to a fetal death report, and printed on the fetal death report when issued by a jurisdictional vital records office | — | N |
FDRFN | Fetal Death Report File Number | The identifier used within the jurisdictional vital records office file system as an auxiliary means of accessing the record associated with the fetal death report certificate. | — | N |
FGN | Filler Group Number | Unique identifier assigned to a group of orders by the filler application. | — | N |
FI | Facility ID | FI | ||
FILL | Filler Identifier | An identifier for a request where the identifier is issued by the person, or service, that produces the observations or fulfills the request. | — | |
GI | Guarantor internal identifier | GI | ||
GIN | Animal Group Identifier (US Official) | Identifier that can be used to unambiguously describe a specific group of animals. | — | N |
GKV | Insured's ID with Public Insurance | Identifier that can be used to unambiguously describe the ID of a patient with a public insurance company. | — | N |
GL | General ledger number | GL | ||
GN | Guarantor external identifier | GN | ||
HC | Health Card Number | HC | ||
IND | Indigenous/Aboriginal | A number assigned to a member of an indigenous or aboriginal group outside of Canada. | IND | |
IRISTEM | An IRI stem | An IRI string that can be prepended to the code to obtain a concept IRI for RDF applications. This should be a valid, absolute IRI as defined in RFC 3987. See https://hl7.org/fhir/rdf.html#iri-stem for details on how this value may be used. | — | |
JHN | Jurisdictional health number | JHN | ||
KZVA | Dentist Office Number | Identifier that can be used to unambiguously identify the practice of a dentist. | — | N |
LACSN | Laboratory Accession ID | A laboratory accession id is used in the laboratory domain. | LACSN | |
LANR | Lifelong physician number | LANR | ||
LI | Labor and industries number | LI | ||
L&I | Labor and industries number | Labor and industries number. Note that this was introduced erroneously (with an ampersand in the code value) many years ago. | — | deprecated |
LN | License number | LN | ||
LR | Local Registry ID | LR | ||
MA | Patient Medicaid number | MA | ||
MB | Member Number | An identifier for the insured of an insurance policy (this insured always has a subscriber), usually assigned by the insurance carrier. | MB | |
MC | Patient's Medicare number | MC | ||
MCD | Practitioner Medicaid number | MCD | ||
MCN | Microchip Number | MCN | ||
MCR | Practitioner Medicare number | MCR | ||
MCT | Marriage Certificate | A number associated with a document identifying the event of a person's marriage. | MCT | |
MD | Medical License number | An identifier that is unique to a medical doctor within the jurisdiction of a licensing board. | MD | |
MI | Military ID number | A number assigned to an individual who has had military duty, but is not currently on active duty. The number is assigned by the DOD or Veterans' Affairs (VA). | MI | |
MR | Medical record number | An identifier that is unique to a patient within a set of medical records, not necessarily unique within an application. | MR | |
MRT | Temporary Medical Record Number | Temporary version of a Medical Record Number | MRT | |
MS | MasterCard | MS | ||
NBSNR | Secondary physician office number | NBSNR | ||
NCT | Naturalization Certificate | A number associated with a document identifying a person's retention of citizenship in a particular country. | NCT | |
NE | National employer identifier | NE | ||
NH | National Health Plan Identifier | NH | ||
NI | National unique individual identifier | NI | ||
NII | National Insurance Organization Identifier | NII | ||
NIIH | National Insurance Headquarters Organization Identifier | — | ||
NIIP | National Insurance Payor Identifier (Payor) | NIIP | ||
NNxxx | National Person Identifier where the xxx is the ISO table 3166 3-character (alphabetic) country code | NNxxx | ||
NP | Nurse practitioner number | An identifier that is unique to a nurse practitioner within the jurisdiction of a certifying board. | NP | |
NPI | National provider identifier | NPI | ||
OBI | Observation Instance Identifier | Unique and persistent identifier for an observation instance | — | N |
OD | Optometrist license number | A number that is unique to an individual optometrist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board. | OD | |
PA | Physician Assistant number | An identifier that is unique to a physician assistant within the jurisdiction of a licensing board | PA | |
PAYERID | Payer Identifier | A unique identifier, usually assigned by a health plan or clearinghouse, used in electronic healthcare transactions to designate the specific health insurance company or plan that is the recipient or sender of the transaction. | — | |
PC | Parole Card | A number identifying a person on parole. | PC | |
PCN | Penitentiary/correctional institution Number | A number assigned to individual who is incarcerated. | PCN | |
PE | Living Subject Enterprise Number | An identifier that is unique to a living subject within an enterprise (as identified by the Assigning Authority). | PE | |
PEN | Pension Number | PEN | ||
PGN | Placer Group Number | Unique identifier assigned to a group of orders by the placer application. | — | N |
PHC | Public Health Case Identifier | Identifier assigned to a person during a case investigation as part of a public health event | — | N |
PHE | Public Health Event Identifier | Identifier assigned to an event of interest to public health | — | N |
PHO | Public Health Official ID | An identifier for a person working at a public health agency (PHA), assigned or issued by the agency | — | N |
PI | Patient internal identifier | A number that is unique to a patient within an Assigning Authority. | PI | |
PIN | Premises Identifier Number (US Official) | Identifier that uniquely identifies a geographic location in the US. | — | N |
PKV | Insured's ID with Private Insurance | Identifier that can be used to unambiguously describe the ID of a patient with a private insurance company. | — | N |
PLAC | Placer Identifier | An identifier for a request where the identifier is issued by the person or service making the request. | — | |
PN | Person number | A number that is unique to a living subject within an Assigning Authority. | PN | |
PNT | Temporary Living Subject Number | Temporary version of a Living Subject Number. | PNT | |
PPIN | Medicare/CMS Performing Provider Identification Number | PPIN | ||
PPN | Passport number | A unique number assigned to the document affirming that a person is a citizen of the country. | PPN | |
PRC | Permanent Resident Card Number | PRC | ||
PRN | Provider number | A number that is unique to an individual provider, a provider group or an organization within an Assigning Authority. | PRN | |
PT | Patient external identifier | PT | ||
QA | QA number | QA | ||
RI | Resource identifier | A generalized resource identifier. | RI | |
RN | Registered Nurse Number | An identifier that is unique to a registered nurse within the jurisdiction of the licensing board. | RN | |
RPH | Pharmacist license number | An identifier that is unique to a pharmacist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board. | RPH | |
RR | Railroad Retirement number | An identifier for an individual enrolled with the Railroad Retirement Administration. Analogous to, but distinct from, a Social Security Number | RR | |
RRI | Regional registry ID | RRI | ||
RRP | Railroad Retirement Provider | RRP | ||
SAMN | SAMN# accession Number | The accession number for the BioSample data repository at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) | — | N |
SB | Social Beneficiary Identifier | An identifier issued by a governmental organization to a person to identify the person should they apply for or receive social services and/or benefits | — | |
SID | Specimen ID | Identifier for a specimen. | SID | |
SL | State license | SL | ||
SN | Subscriber Number | An identifier for a subscriber of an insurance policy which is unique for, and usually assigned by, the insurance carrier. | SN | |
SNBSN | State assigned NDBS card Identifier | The identifier on a Newborn Screening Dried Bloodspot (NDBS) card that is assigned by the state which provided the sample collection cards and to whom this information must be reported | — | N |
SNO | Serial Number | An identifier affixed to an item by the manufacturer when it is first made, where each item has a different identifier. | — | |
SP | Study Permit | A number associated with a permit identifying a person who is a resident of a jurisdiction for the purpose of education. | SP | |
SR | State registry ID | SR | ||
SRX | SRA Accession number | The accession number generated by the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) when sequence data are uploaded to NCBI. | — | N |
SS | Social Security number | SS | ||
STN | Shipment Tracking Number | Identifier assigned to a package being shipped | — | N |
TAX | Tax ID number | TAX | ||
TN | Treaty Number/ (Canada) | A number assigned to a member of an indigenous group in Canada. | TN | |
TPR | Temporary Permanent Resident (Canada) | A number associated with a document identifying a person's temporary permanent resident status. | TPR | |
TRL | Training License Number | The license number used during training. | — | N |
U | Unspecified identifier | U | ||
UDI | Universal Device Identifier | An identifier assigned to a device using the Unique Device Identification framework as defined by IMDRF (http://imdrf.org). | — | |
UCID | Unique Claim Identifier | A unique identifier assigned by a payer for a claim received from a provider or subscriber. | — | |
UMB | Unique Product-independent Payer Person Identifier | A unique identifier assigned to an individual by a payer that remains consistent regardless of the individual's role (e.g., subscriber, dependent) or the specific product(s) they are enrolled in with that payer. | — | |
UPIN | Medicare/CMS (formerly HCFA)'s Universal Physician Identification numbers | An identifier for a provider within the CMS/Medicare program. A globally unique identifier for the provider in the Medicare program. | UPIN | |
USID | Unique Specimen ID | A unique identifier for a specimen. | USID | |
VN | Visit number | VN | ||
VP | Visitor Permit | A number associated with a document identifying a person as a visitor of a jurisdiction or country. | VP | |
VS | VISA | VS | ||
WC | WIC identifier | WC | ||
WCN | Workers' Comp Number | WCN | ||
WP | Work Permit | A number associated with a permit for a person who is granted permission to work in a country for a specified time period. | WP | |
XV | Health Plan Identifier | National unique health plan identifier required by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the US Realm. | — | N |
XX | Organization identifier | XX | ||
ZANR | Dentist Identifier | Identifier that can be used to unambiguously describe the ID of a dentist. | — | N |
FHIR codes from the HL7 v2-to-FHIR concept map IdentifierType (unconditional mappings only).
Where it's used
| Element | Name | FHIR (v2-to-FHIR mapping) |
|---|---|---|
CX.5 | Identifier Type Code | — |
PPN.13 | — | |
XCN.13 | Identifier Type Code | — |
XON.7 | Identifier Type Code | — |
Elements with a dot (such as CX.5) are data type components, used wherever that data type appears.
Source: HL7 Terminology (THO) 7.4.0 and the HL7 v2-to-FHIR Implementation Guide 1.0.0, published by HL7 International under CC0. Check your trading partner's specification for the values they actually send.