MEDPID Person identification message (D08A)

This is the standard EDIFACT D08A spec, with 6 loops and 40 segment positions, as OpenEDI JSON, an ediFabric C# template and an ediFabric Native model. To change it for a trading partner, customize it in the EDI Spec Builder.

Standard spec Customize in Spec Builder
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The spec as an OpenAPI 3 schema with x-openedi-* extensions, for ediFabric Native, ediFabric Cloud and the EDI Spec Builder. Download OpenEDI (61 KB) Generate classes
The ediFabric .NET template, class TSMEDPID. It needs the common segments, composites and codes of EDIFACT D08A, one download for every transaction in the version. Download C# (1 KB) Common files (57 KB)
The intermediary model ediFabric Native loads with set_map. Native supports X12 today, and EDIFACT is coming. Download Native (1 KB)

Use the MEDPID spec in your code

ediFabric .NET

Add the C# template and its common files to your project, or reference the template NuGet package, and read MEDPID files into TSMEDPID objects. See ediFabric .NET.

ediFabric Native

Native supports X12 today, and EDIFACT is coming. When it's available, map version D08A to this Native model with set_map to parse MEDPID files to JSON from Python, Java, C or C#. See ediFabric Native.

OpenEDI

Select Customize in Spec Builder to copy the spec under your own name, change it for your partner, and parse files against it in EdiNation, ediFabric Native or ediFabric Cloud. Read about OpenEDI.

Generate MEDPID classes in Python, Java, Node.js, Go, Rust or C

The OpenEDI file describes each MEDPID as JSON. To work with MEDPID data as typed objects, generate classes from the OpenEDI file in your language; the root class is TSMEDPID. The classes keep the loops, segments, lengths and code lists, but not the EDI data formats. Read more in Generate a class from OpenEDI.

Python: datamodel-code-generator. Node.js: openapi-typescript. Java, Go, Rust and C: OpenAPI Generator.

MEDPID structure

Loops and segments of the standard MEDPID, with their usage and maximum repeats.

IDNameUsageMax use
UNHMessage HeaderOptional1
BGMBEGINNING OF MESSAGEMandatory1
DTMDATE/TIME/PERIODOptional9
RFFREFERENCEOptional9
FTXFREE TEXTOptional99
Loop PNAPARTY IDENTIFICATIONMandatory99
PNAPARTY IDENTIFICATIONMandatory1
ADRADDRESSOptional9
CTACONTACT INFORMATIONOptional9
COMCOMMUNICATION CONTACTOptional9
RFFREFERENCEOptional99
LANLANGUAGEOptional9
Loop GEIPROCESSING INFORMATIONMandatory9999
GEIPROCESSING INFORMATIONMandatory1
PNAPARTY IDENTIFICATIONOptional1
ADRADDRESSOptional9
RFFREFERENCEOptional99
DTMDATE/TIME/PERIODOptional9
IHCPERSON CHARACTERISTICOptional9
NATNATIONALITYOptional9
FTXFREE TEXTOptional9
LANLANGUAGEOptional9
HANHANDLING INSTRUCTIONSOptional9
LOCPLACE/LOCATION IDENTIFICATIONOptional9
FIIFINANCIAL INSTITUTION INFORMATIONOptional9
CTACONTACT INFORMATIONOptional9
Loop PDIPERSON DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATIONOptional9
PDIPERSON DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATIONMandatory1
DTMDATE/TIME/PERIODOptional9
Loop COMCOMMUNICATION CONTACTOptional9
COMCOMMUNICATION CONTACTMandatory1
CTACONTACT INFORMATIONOptional9
Loop RELRELATIONSHIPOptional99
RELRELATIONSHIPMandatory1
PNAPARTY IDENTIFICATIONOptional1
ADRADDRESSOptional9
RFFREFERENCEOptional9
DTMDATE/TIME/PERIODOptional9
PDIPERSON DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATIONOptional1
IHCPERSON CHARACTERISTICOptional9
NATNATIONALITYOptional9
LANLANGUAGEOptional9
Loop AUTAUTHENTICATION RESULTOptional9
AUTAUTHENTICATION RESULTMandatory1
DTMDATE/TIME/PERIODOptional9
UNTMessage TrailerOptional1