AFF segment

The AFF segment adds detailed information regarding professional affiliations with which the staff member identified by the STF segment is/was associated. 15.4.1.0 AFF Field Definitions 15.4.1.1 AFF-1 Set ID - AFF (SI) 01427 Definition: This field contains the number that identifies this transaction. For the first occurrence of the segment, the sequence number shall be one, for the second occurrence, the sequence number shall be two,

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required optional

Count the pipes to find a field, and count the empty ones too: an empty field still holds its place. Leave out the separator before AFF-3 and its value arrives as AFF-2, so the receiver stores Professional Organization Address as Professional Organization.

This page carries the AFF field table as published and nothing beyond it. The field notes, vendor behaviour, FHIR mapping and parsing guidance that thePID page has are still to be written for AFF.

Every field

SEQ LEN DT OPT RP/# TBL# ITEM# Element name Cardinality

AFF-1 60 SI R 01427 Set ID – AFF 1..1

AFF-2 250 XON R 01444 Professional Organization 1..1

AFF-2 is a XON, which holds 10 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
XON.1	50	ST	O		Organization Name
XON.2	20	IS	O	0204	Organization Name Type Code
XON.3	4	NM	B		ID Number
XON.4	1	NM	O		Check Digit
XON.5	3	ID	O	0061	Check Digit Scheme
XON.6	227	HD	O	0363	Assigning Authority
XON.7	5	ID	O	0203	Identifier Type Code
XON.8	227	HD	O		Assigning Facility
XON.9	1	ID	O	0465	Name Representation Code
XON.10	20	ST	O		Organization Identifier

AFF-3 250 XAD O 01445 Professional Organization Address 0..1

AFF-3 is a XAD, which holds 14 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
XAD.1	184	SAD	O		Street Address
XAD.2	120	ST	O		Other Designation
XAD.3	50	ST	O		City
XAD.4	50	ST	O		State or Province
XAD.5	12	ST	O		Zip or Postal Code
XAD.6	3	ID	O	0399	Country
XAD.7	3	ID	O	0190	Address Type
XAD.8	50	ST	O		Other Geographic Designation
XAD.9	20	IS	O	0289	County/Parish Code
XAD.10	20	IS	O	0288	Census Tract
XAD.11	1	ID	O	0465	Address Representation Code
XAD.12	53	DR	B		Address Validity Range
XAD.13	26	TS	O		Effective Date
XAD.14	26	TS	O		Expiration Date

AFF-4 52 DR O Y 01446 Professional Organization Affiliation Date Range 0..*

AFF-4 is a DR, which holds 2 components separated by carets.

SEQ	LEN	DT	OPT	TBL#	Component name
DR.1	26	TS	O		Range Start Date/Time
DR.2	26	TS	O		Range End Date/Time

AFF-5 60 ST O 01447 Professional Affiliation Additional Information 0..1

Message types carrying AFF

AFF appears in 3 message structures, belonging to 3 message types.

AFF segment

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Message types carrying AFF