Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: November 26, 2014

Program Area: Distributed Data Collection (DDC) for RA Including HCRP/EDGE Server

Question: Are there restrictions associated with the use of file identifiers?

Answer: The only restriction is that the File ID must be a string of 12 and cannot be a duplicated for a specific file type and zone. If the file was previously submitted and rejected, then the file ID may be reused.

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