pharmacy date

pharm_dt

pharmacy

Updated 5/16/2026

Definition

Business date associated with a pharmacy transaction or member event in pharmacy, PBM, or enrollment systems, such as fill date or eligibility effective date. Used for temporal filtering, claims alignment, and member pharmacy benefit period analysis in data pipelines.

Standard Abbreviation

pharm_dt

Database Usage

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

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  pharm_dt as pharmacy_date
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

PBM claims adjudication and drug utilization review
Controlled substance monitoring and DEA compliance
Pharmacy data warehouse and ETL pipeline design
Prior authorization and step therapy workflows
Medicare Part D reporting and CMS submissions

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
pharm_dt

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  pharm_dt     DATE,  -- pharmacy 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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