BIN/PCN (All Changes) Extract

The BIN/PCN (All Changes) Extract consists of the following files downloaded from the HPMS Repository:

readme_BIN_PCN_2022.txt
BIN_PCN_2022.txt
BIN_PCN_2022.sas

BIN_PCN2022.txt is a tab delimited text file containing history of Part D Sponsor NCPDP Processor ID 
Number and Part D Sponsor Processor Control Number data in CY 2022 at the time the extract is requested. 
The file contains the following columns:

contract_id             Contract ID        
plan_id                 Plan ID        
contract_year           Contract Year
effective_start_date    Effective Start Date        
effective_end_date      Effective End Date
bin                     Part D Sponsor NCPDP Processor ID Number
pcn                     Part D Sponsor Processor Control Number
created_date            Creation Date
created_by              Created By

BIN_PCN_2022.sas is a SAS program which will read the tab-delimited file BIN_PCN_2022.txt. This program also 
serves as the data dictionary for this extract.  The type and length of all the variables are described in 
the SAS program. The SAS program also documents variables with discrete values.

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If you are importing the data into Excel, you must define certain columns as text or you will lose any leading 
zero information (example: a plan_id of '001' will appear as '1' if defined as "general" or "numeric"). The 
variable names for columns which should be declared as text are indicated in the SAS program by being listed 
in the length statement.