In my experience, the 997 reflects the Standard only but may be used as the
partners agree. An 824 Application Advice more commonly is used to reflect
IG issues which are inherently application issues. I have never seen dual
997s sent. The purpose of the 997 is to advise of successful receipt OR
syntax errors. It is unrelated to the business application.
Jim Divoky, EC Solutions
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> A topic came up in the course of conversation about whether 997's should
> reflect the Standard or the Imp Guide (IG)... to narrow it down a bit this
> would be for transactions that fall under HIPAA. This means that the US
Govt
> has built the IG's for a set of transactions and all parties using these
> transactions will all use the same IG.
>
> Now the questions... should the 997 reflect the Standard or the IG. I
believe
> that creating a 997 from the standard is not very useful when it comes to
> syntax checking... there could be a valid qualifier/element/segment but
> because it's not in the IG I can't use it and will error out the
transaction
> because I can't map the data. For example, if there were 5 relationship
codes
> in the IG but the transaction being sent contains 6 (the 6th one valid
> according to the standard) but one not in the IG and therefore doesn't
map.
>
> Second question. Has anyone ever seen two 997's being sent. The first
one to
> reflect the standard and the second to reflect the IG. I think this is a
bad
> idea because if the first one says all syntax is correct and then the
second
> one says there is a syntax error base on the IG.... the first one is of
very
> little or no value.
>
> I have never seen this put in place but because I could have lived a
sheltered
> life up to this point I thought I would ask the world of experts on EDI-L
>
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jonathan Showalter
> Omaha NE USA
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