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bill discharge date

bill_dsch_dt
general
Updated 3/30/2026

Definition

The hospital release date for a service charge statement. Used to track temporal information related to bill discharge date. This field is commonly used in electronic health records (EHR), healthcare information systems (HIS), and clinical data warehouses for bill management and reporting.

Standard Abbreviation

bill_dsch_dt

Category

general

Database Usage

-- Example column naming
CREATE TABLE claims (
  clm_id VARCHAR(50),
  bill_dsch_dt VARCHAR(100),  -- bill discharge date
  ...
);

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  bill_dsch_dt as bill_discharge_date
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

  • Healthcare data warehouse schema design and modeling
  • Interoperability and cross-system data exchange
  • ETL pipeline development and orchestration
  • Master data management (MDM) programs
  • Analytics and business intelligence reporting

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
bill_dsch_dt

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  bill_dsch_dt VARCHAR(255),  -- bill discharge date
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.

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