Census

census overview a census notification message is sent from an ltpac setting or service to the pharmacy to provide resident status this message contains information related to the admission, discharge, and transfer status along with profile data such as diagnosis, allergy, and payer information this message can be sent when any update to a patient profile information is made census requirements there are no requirements that are unique to this message the validations applied to common elements found in other messages are \<font color="#0c121d">found in the tables in the\</font> display requirements tables census docid\ d0acav njcersruwnrvo1 section census best practices in some ltpac pharmacies, a census message that includes discharge information is sufficient to discontinue all prescriptions for that patient or resident’s profile and no cancelrx is expected timing of messages should be considered when discharging residents if the census message is sent prior to any cancelrx messages to discontinue prescriptions, a cancelrxresponse of denied may occur it is best for trading partner agreements to stipulate the expected workflow updated external code list (ecl) values in the messagerequestcode make the options for communicating the type of census information more distinguishable to the pharmacy using the version as defined by ncpdp will ensure more accurate resident profile and decrease manual processes priorperiodcorrection segment allows the sender to identify a correction to previously sent census messaging with incorrect payer information