Arkansas APCD Data Submission Guide Information
Quarterly Submission Schedule
| Submission
Deadline |
Coverage Period |
| March 31 |
October 1 through
December 31 (previous year) |
| June 30 |
January 1 through
March 31 (same year) |
| September 30 |
April 1 thorugh June
30 (same year) |
| December 31 |
July 1 through
September 30 (same year) |
Arkansas APCD DSG Version 8.0.2022 Technical Change (UPDATED! 3/08/2022): The Arkansas APCD released Data Submission Guide (DSG) version 8.0.2022
on 12/1/2021. This DSG is being re-released with technical changes that provide
additional clarifying information for submitting entities. In summary,
-
Original
release: Revisions 1 through 28 – 12/1/2021
- Minor alignment with Common
Data Layout;
- Inclusion of institutional
values to inpatient-only fields;
- Addition of ZIP4;
- Addition of the point of origin
appendix;
- Alignment and clarification of
some definitions;
- Making previously optional
fields required;
- Changing the language and
ethnicity code references;
- Addition of Arkansas Medicaid
aid category codes;
- Addition placeholder fields;
and
- Other technical updates.
DSG 8.0 Technical
Changes: Revisions 29 through 36 – 2/25/2022
- Field value length changes
- Bill Type value correction
- Corrected dependency
- Ethnicity code appendix
correction
- Clarification for empty vs
blank fields
DSG 8.0 Technical Changes: Revision 37– 3/08/2022
Submitting entities will not be required to resubmit any previously submitted data to comply with the new changes. They should be aware of changes going forward such as threshold changes, format clarifications, definition clarifications, and optional to required changes. The new versions of the DSG are located at the links below.
Two formats of the revised DSG 8.0.2022 are available – one with comments and one without comments. The version with comments identifies changes, existing and new, in the Revision History section and on the page where the revision occurs. This enables the submitting entity quick and easy identification of the changes. The format without comments identifies changes in the Revision History section only.
Older DSG Versions