NAME              TYPE    LENGTH
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8. AGE                           NUM       3

	BENEFICIARY'S AGE AT END OF THE REFERENCE
	YEAR. IN THE EVENT THAT THE BENEFICIARY EXPIRED
	DURING THE REFERENCE YEAR, THE AGE AT DATE 
	OF DEATH IS USED. THIS DATE IS VERIFIED USING
	BOTH THE DATE OF DEATH AND VALID DATE OF DEATH
	INDICATOR SWITCH FROM THE CMS 100% DENOMINATOR
	FILE.

	3 DIGITS

	CODES:
	AGE > 115, CODED AS 115

	CCW FIELD SOURCE AND DERIVATION:
	  Primary = Beneficiary Summary File Processing Calculation, 
	  Including Beneficiary Year of Birth as given on the UEDB and 
	  the Reference Year of the Beneficiary Summary File being created.

	  If Age>115, Age=115 (maximum age allowed)
	  If Age<0, Age=missing (erroneous date of birth)

	  If the beneficiary died during the reference year, the beneficiary's 
	  birth date is substracted from the beneficiary's death date to 
	  calculate age, if the beneficiary is alive, the beneficiary's 
	  date of birth is substracted from 12/31 of the reference year to 
	  calculate the beneficiary's age

	CMS DENOMINATOR DIFFERENCE:
	  Secondary Processing: 
	  1) RIC-J; Field Name: BENE_ENTLMT_RSN_CD
	  2) RIC-A; Field Name: BENE_MDCR_STUS_CD

	  If Age >= 98, Age=98 (maximum age allowed).

	  The date of birth given by the input file is used to determine this 
	  field value.  If the input file does not provide a valid date of 
	  birth for a beneficiary, then the following rules are used to set 
	  the beneficiary's age:

	  (1) If there is no recorded entitlement history and no recorded 
	      Medicare status history information found in the EDB for the 
	      beneficiary, then the value in this field is set to 65.

	  (2) If there is entitlement reason history found but no Medicare 
	      status code history found in the EDB, and if the latest 
	      entitlement reason history indicates that the beneficiary's 
	      reason for entitlement is not 'aged', then the value in this 
	      field is set to 62.

	  (3) If there is Medicare status code history found for the 
	      beneficiary but no entitlement reason history for the 
	      beneficiary has been found from the EDB, and if the latest 
	      Medicare status code history indicates that the beneficiary's 
	      Medicare status was not 'aged' or 'aged with ESRD', then the 
	      value of thisfield is set to 62.

	  (4) If none of 1, 2, or 3 above applies to the beneficiary, then 
	      the value in this field is set to 65.