US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-05, ch. 5, § 50.1.3
Return Codes
One of the following codes is returned to the A/B MAC (Part B) system, which
indicates the results from processing secondary payment computation and savings.
These codes are also referenced in the technical documentation released with the
MSPPAY modules.
Return Code Description
3010 Claim is fully paid
3020 Claim is partially paid
3030 Line of service denied
3500 Invalid MSP value code
3510 Invalid number of other payers
3520 Non-numeric MSP amount
3530 MSP amount equals zeros
3540 Invalid record identification
3545 Non-numeric Gramm-Rudmann-Hollings percent
3560 Non-numeric blood deductible
3570 Non-numeric cash deductible
3700 Non-numeric total coinsurance amount
3730 Non-numeric Medicare primary payment
3780 Non-numeric provider payment amount
3790 Non-numeric patient payment amount
3800 Invalid assignment indicator
3805 Invalid par indicator
3810 Non-numeric other payer allowed amount
3820 Non-numeric charges not subject to deductible and coinsurance
3830 Non-numeric charges subject to deductible
Return Code Description
3840 Non-numeric psychiatric charges
3880 Invalid "thru-date" of claim
3890 Non-numeric Medicare reasonable charge/fee schedule
3910 Non-numeric obligated to accept
3920 Non-numeric total actual charges
3930 Non-numeric limited fee
3940 Non-numeric limited charge
3950 Limited fee equal zeros
3960 Limited charge equal zeros
History
(Rev. 11550; Issued: 08-12-22; Effective: 10-13-22; Implementation:10-13-22)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
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