route service date

rte_svc_dt

claims

Updated 5/16/2026

Definition

The care delivery date for a administration pathway. Used to track temporal information related to route service date. This field is commonly used in electronic health records (EHR), healthcare information systems (HIS), and clinical data warehouses for route management and reporting.

Standard Abbreviation

rte_svc_dt

Database Usage

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

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  rte_svc_dt as route_service_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
rte_svc_dt

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  rte_svc_dt   DATE,  -- route service 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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