HL7 - REFACTORED

Identifier Type
Vocabulary Type	Code System - Universal
Concept Domain	Identifier Type
Code System Name
Code System Identifier
Code System OID
HL7 Table Identifier	HL70203
Version
Status	Active
Where Used	CX.5, PPN.13, XCN.13, XON.7
Purpose and Use	HL7-defined table of codes specifying the type of identififier.

Identifier Type - Code System
Code	Display	Definition
AC	Accreditation/Certification Identifier	Identifier that has been assigned by an accreditation or certification organization in specific fields, indicating a recognized skill
ACSN	Accession ID	Accession Identifier
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.
AM	American Express	American Express
AMA	American Medical Association Number	A physician identifier assigned by the AMA.
AN	Account number	Account An identifier that is unique to an account.
ANC	Account number Creditor	A more precise definition of an account number
AND	Account number debitor	A more precise definition of an account number
ANON	Anonymous identifier	An identifier for a living subject whose real identity is protected or suppressed
ANT	Temporary Account Number	Temporary version of an Account Number
APRN	Advanced Practice Registered Nurse number	An identifier that is unique to an advanced practice registered nurse within the jurisdiction of a certifying board
ASID	Ancestor Specimen ID	A unique identifier for the ancestor specimen.
BA	Bank Account Number	Bank Account Number
BC	Bank Card Number	An identifier that is unique to a person's bank card
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.
BCT	Birth Certificate	A number associated with a document identifying the event of a person's birth
BR	Birth registry number	An identifier unique within the Assigning Authority that is the official legal record of a person's birth.
BRN	Breed Registry Number	Breed Registry Number
BSNR	Primary physician office number	Primary physician office number
CAAI	Consumer Application Account Identifier	An identifier for the consumer (e.g., patient, caregiver) for an application such as a portal or App.
CC	Cost Center number	Cost Center number
CONM	Change of Name Document	A number associated with a document identifying a person's legal change of name.
CY	County number	County number
CZ	Citizenship Card	A number assigned by a person's country of residence to identify a person's citizenship.
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
DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration registration number	An identifier for an individual or organization relative to controlled substance regulation and transactions.
DFN	Drug Furnishing or prescriptive authority Number	An identifier issued to a health care provider authorizing the person to write drug orders
DI	Diner's Club card	Diner's Club card
DL	Driver's license number	Driver's license number
DN	Doctor number	Doctor number
DO	Osteopathic License number	An identifier that is unique to an osteopath within the jurisdiction of a licensing board.
DP	Diplomatic Passport	A number assigned to a diplomatic passport.
DPM	Podiatrist license number	An identifier that is unique to a podiatrist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.
DR	Donor Registration Number	Donor Registration Number
DS	Discover Card	Discover Card
DSG	Diagnostic Study Group	Unique Identifier that groups several orders that are to be performed together.
EI	Employee number	A number that uniquely identifies an employee to an employer.
EN	Employer number	Employer number
ESN	Staff Enterprise Number	An identifier that is unique to a staff member within an enterprise (as identified by the Assigning Authority).
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
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.
FGN	Filler Group Number	Unique identifier assigned to a group of orders by the filler application.
FI	Facility ID	Facility ID
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	Guarantor internal identifier
GIN	Animal Group Identifier (US Official)	Identifier that can be used to unambiguously describe a specific group of animals.
GL	General ledger number	General ledger number
GN	Guarantor external identifier	Guarantor external identifier
HC	Health Card Number	Health Card Number
IND	Indigenous/Aboriginal	A number assigned to a member of an indigenous or aboriginal group outside of Canada.
JHN	Jurisdictional health number	Jurisdictional health number
LACSN	Laboratory Accession ID	A laboratory accession id is used in the laboratory domain.
LANR	Lifelong physician number	Lifelong physician number
LI	Labor and industries number	Labor and industries number
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.
LN	License number	License number
LR	Local Registry ID	Local Registry ID
MA	Patient Medicaid number	Patient Medicaid number
MB	Member Number	An identifier for the insured of an insurance policy (this insured always has a subscriber), usually assigned by the insurance carrier.
MC	Patient's Medicare number	Patient's Medicare number
MCD	Practitioner Medicaid number	Practitioner Medicaid number
MCN	Microchip Number	Microchip Number
MCR	Practitioner Medicare number	Practitioner Medicare number
MCT	Marriage Certificate	A number associated with a document identifying the event of a person's marriage.
MD	Medical License number	An identifier that is unique to a medical doctor within the jurisdiction of a licensing board.
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).
MR	Medical record number	An identifier that is unique to a patient within a set of medical records, not necessarily unique within an application.
MRT	Temporary Medical Record Number	Temporary version of a Medical Record Number
MS	MasterCard	MasterCard
NBSNR	Secondary physician office number	Secondary physician office number
NCT	Naturalization Certificate	A number associated with a document identifying a person's retention of citizenship in a particular country.
NE	National employer identifier	National employer identifier
NH	National Health Plan Identifier	National Health Plan Identifier
NI	National unique individual identifier	National unique individual identifier
NII	National Insurance Organization Identifier	National Insurance Organization Identifier
NIIP	National Insurance Payor Identifier (Payor)	National Insurance Payor Identifier (Payor)
NNxxx	National Person Identifier where the xxx is the ISO table 3166 3-character (alphabetic) country code	National Person Identifier where the xxx is the ISO table 3166 3-character (alphabetic) country code
NP	Nurse practitioner number	An identifier that is unique to a nurse practitioner within the jurisdiction of a certifying board.
NPI	National provider identifier	National provider identifier
OBI	Observation Instance Identifier	Unique and persistent identifier for an observation instance
OD	Optometrist license number	A number that is unique to an individual optometrist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.
PA	Physician Assistant number	An identifier that is unique to a physician assistant within the jurisdiction of a licensing board
PC	Parole Card	A number identifying a person on parole.
PCN	Penitentiary/correctional institution Number	A number assigned to individual who is incarcerated.
PE	Living Subject Enterprise Number	An identifier that is unique to a living subject within an enterprise (as identified by the Assigning Authority).
PEN	Pension Number	Pension Number
PGN	Placer Group Number	Unique identifier assigned to a group of orders by the placer application.
PHC	Public Health Case Identifier	Identifier assigned to a person during a case investigation as part of a public health event
PHE	Public Health Event Identifier	Identifier assigned to an event of interest to public health
PHO	Public Health Official ID	An identifier for a person working at a public health agency (PHA), assigned or issued by the agency
PI	Patient internal identifier	A number that is unique to a patient within an Assigning Authority.
PIN	Premises Identifier Number (US Official)	Identifier that uniquely identifies a geographic location in the US.
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.
PNT	Temporary Living Subject Number	Temporary version of a Living Subject Number.
PPIN	Medicare/CMS Performing Provider Identification Number	Medicare/CMS Performing Provider Identification Number
PPN	Passport number	A unique number assigned to the document affirming that a person is a citizen of the country.
PRC	Permanent Resident Card Number	Permanent Resident Card Number
PRN	Provider number	A number that is unique to an individual provider, a provider group or an organization within an Assigning Authority.
PT	Patient external identifier	Patient external identifier
QA	QA number	QA number
RI	Resource identifier	A generalized resource identifier.
RN	Registered Nurse Number	An identifier that is unique to a registered nurse within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.
RPH	Pharmacist license number	An identifier that is unique to a pharmacist within the jurisdiction of the licensing board.
RR	Railroad Retirement number	An identifier for an individual enrolled with the Railroad Retirement Administration. Analogous to, but distinct from, a Social Security Number
RRI	Regional registry ID	Regional registry ID
RRP	Railroad Retirement Provider	Railroad Retirement Provider
SAMN	SAMN# accession Number	The accession number for the BioSample data repository at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
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.
SL	State license	State license
SN	Subscriber Number	An identifier for a subscriber of an insurance policy which is unique for, and usually assigned by, the insurance carrier.
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
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.
SR	State registry ID	State registry ID
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.
SS	Social Security number	Social Security number
STN	Shipment Tracking Number	Identifier assigned to a package being shipped
TAX	Tax ID number	Tax ID number
TN	Treaty Number/ (Canada)	A number assigned to a member of an indigenous group in Canada.
TPR	Temporary Permanent Resident (Canada)	A number associated with a document identifying a person's temporary permanent resident status.
TRL	Training License Number	The license number used during training.
U	Unspecified identifier	Unspecified identifier
UDI	Universal Device Identifier	An identifier assigned to a device using the Unique Device Identification framework as defined by IMDRF (http://imdrf.org).
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.
USID	Unique Specimen ID	A unique identifier for a specimen.
VN	Visit number	Visit number
VP	Visitor Permit	A number associated with a document identifying a person as a visitor of a jurisdiction or country.
VS	VISA	VISA
WC	WIC identifier	WIC identifier
WCN	Workers' Comp Number	Workers' Comp Number
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.
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.
XX	Organization identifier	Organization identifier

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