CTH Beginning Segment for Contract Transaction Set

To indicate the beginning of the Contract and Rebate Management Transaction Set and transmit identifying contract information

Position: CTH-01 · Element: 353 · Name: Transaction Set Purpose Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying purpose of transaction set

Position: CTH-02 · Element: 367 · Name: Contract Number · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Contract number

Position: CTH-03 · Element: 1308 · Name: Contract Action Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying the expected resultant type of contract action or current type of contract action

Position: CTH-04 · Element: 128 · Name: Reference Identification Qualifier · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 2 · Max: 3 · Repeat: 1

Code qualifying the Reference Identification

P0405: If either CTH-04 or CTH-05 is present, then the other is required

Position: CTH-05 · Element: 127 · Name: Reference Identification · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 80 · Repeat: 1

Reference information as defined for a particular Transaction Set or as specified by the Reference Identification Qualifier

Position: CTH-06 · Element: 373 · Name: Date · Type: Date (DT) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 8 · Max: 8 · Repeat: 1

Date expressed as CCYYMMDD where CC represents the first two digits of the calendar year

CTH06 is the date the transaction set was created in the business application system.

Position: CTH-07 · Element: 337 · Name: Time · Type: Time (TM) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 4 · Max: 8 · Repeat: 1

Time expressed in 24-hour clock time as follows: HHMM, or HHMMSS, or HHMMSSD, or HHMMSSDD, where H = hours (00-23), M = minutes (00-59), S = integer seconds (00-59) and DD = decimal seconds; decimal seconds are expressed as follows: D = tenths (0-9) and DD = hundredths (00-99)

CTH07 is the time the transaction was created within the business application system.

Position: CTH-08 · Element: 1771 · Name: Contract Level Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 2 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating the administrative level to which the contract pertains

Position: CTH-09 · Element: 1762 · Name: Contract Date Basis Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 1 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying the date basis for contract dates

P0910: If either CTH-09 or CTH-10 is present, then the other is required

Position: CTH-10 · Element: 98 · Name: Entity Identifier Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Conditional · Min: 2 · Max: 3 · Repeat: 1

Code identifying an organizational entity, a physical location, property or an individual

Position: CTH-11 · Element: 352 · Name: Description · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 80 · Repeat: 1

A free-form description to clarify the related data elements and their content

CTH11 allows for additional description about this contract.