Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans December 28 ...

Plan Communications User Guide Appendices, Version 6.3
F.20.3 Trailer Record
Note: A “Critical Field” must contain a value. A “Not Critical Field” may contain a value or all
spaces.
Field Size Position Format Valid Values Description
File ID
Name
Sending
Entity
File
Creation
Date
File
Control
Number
File
Record
Count
8 1-8 X(8) “CMSNRX0T” Critical Field
This field is always set to the value "CMSNRX0T.”
This code allows recognition of the record as the
Trailer Record of a NoRx File.
8 9-16 X(8) “MBD “ Critical Field
(MBD + 5 This field is always set to the value “MBD “. The
spaces) value specifically is “MBD” followed by five spaces.
8 17-24 X(8) YYYYMMDD Critical Field
The date that CMS created the NoRx file. This value
is formulated as YYYYMMDD.
9 25-33 X(9) Spaces No meaningful values are supplied in this field. This
field is set to SPACES and is not referenced for
meaningful information.
7 34-40 9(7) Numeric value
greater than
Zero.
Critical Field
The total number of NoRx records on this file. This
value is right-justified in the field with leading zeros.
Filler 710 41-750 X(710) Spaces No meaningful values are supplied in this field. This
field is set to SPACES and is not referenced for
meaningful information.
Total Length = 750
December 28, 2012 F-105 NoRx File