Use this segment to identify the hierarchical or entity level of information being conveyed. The HL structure allows for the efficient
nesting of related occurrences of information. The developers’ intent is to clearly identify the relationship of the patient to the subscriber
and the subscriber to the provider
Loop | Seg ID | Segment Name | Format | Length | Ref# | Req | Value |
2000C | HL | Billing Hierarchical Level | 2 | R | HL | ||
Element Separator | AN | 1 | * | ||||
HL01 | Hierarchical ID Number | AN | 1/12 | 628 | R | Use this sequentially assigned positive number to identify each | |
Element Separator | AN | 1 | * | ||||
HL02 | Hierarchical Parent ID Number | 0 | 1/12 | 734 | 2 | ||
Element Separator | 1 | * | |||||
HL03 | Hierarchical Level Code | ID | 1/2 | 735 | R | 22 (Subscriber) | |
Element Separator | 1 | * | |||||
HL04 | Hierarchical Child Code | ID | 1/1 | 736 | R | 0 | |
Segment Terminator | ~ | ||||||
Sample:
HL*3*2*22*0~
Segment Structure