obstetric claim date

ob_clm_dt

claims

Updated 3/30/2026

Definition

The claim submission date for a pregnancy care specialty. Used to track temporal information related to obstetric claim date. This field is commonly used in electronic health records (EHR), healthcare information systems (HIS), and clinical data warehouses for obstetric management and reporting.

Standard Abbreviation

ob_clm_dt

Database Usage

-- Example column naming
CREATE TABLE claims (
  clm_id VARCHAR(50),
  ob_clm_dt DATE,  -- obstetric claim date (date only, no time)
  ...
);

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  ob_clm_dt as obstetric_claim_date
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

Claims adjudication and remittance processing
837P/837I/837D claim file parsing and validation
Revenue cycle management and denial analytics
CMS cost report and Medicare cost reporting
Payer contract performance and underpayment analysis

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
ob_clm_dt

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  ob_clm_dt    DATE,  -- obstetric claim date (date only, no time)
  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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