Beneficiary assigned to ACO during Prospective/Preliminary Prospective Assignment

This variable is contained in the following files:

SAS Name

PRELIM_ASSIGN

0/1 flag; = 1 if beneficiary was assigned to that ACO in the initial performance year assignment run (Prospective/Preliminary Prospective Assignment) and = 0 if the beneficiary was not assigned to that ACO in the initial performance year assignment run (Prospective/Preliminary Prospective Assignment).