MEDPID Person identification message (D17A)

This is the standard EDIFACT D17A 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 (60 KB) Generate classes
The ediFabric .NET template, class TSMEDPID. It needs the common segments, composites and codes of EDIFACT D17A, one download for every transaction in the version. Download C# (1 KB) Common files (69 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 D17A 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
UNHUNHMandatory1
BGMBGMMandatory1
DTMDTMOptional9
RFFRFFOptional9
FTXFTXOptional99
Loop PNAPNAMandatory99
PNAPNAMandatory1
ADRADROptional9
CTACTAOptional9
COMCOMOptional9
RFFRFFOptional99
LANLANOptional9
Loop GEIGEIMandatory9999
GEIGEIMandatory1
PNAPNAOptional1
ADRADROptional9
RFFRFFOptional99
DTMDTMOptional9
IHCIHCOptional9
NATNATOptional9
FTXFTXOptional9
LANLANOptional9
HANHANOptional9
LOCLOCOptional9
FIIFIIOptional9
CTACTAOptional9
Loop PDIPDIOptional9
PDIPDIMandatory1
DTMDTMOptional9
Loop COMCOMOptional9
COMCOMMandatory1
CTACTAOptional9
Loop RELRELOptional99
RELRELMandatory1
PNAPNAOptional1
ADRADROptional9
RFFRFFOptional9
DTMDTMOptional9
PDIPDIOptional1
IHCIHCOptional9
NATNATOptional9
LANLANOptional9
Loop AUTAUTOptional9
AUTAUTMandatory1
DTMDTMOptional9
UNTUNTMandatory1