Kepa has said nothing is "automatic." But there might be an exception with the simplest case of e-mail'ed transactions, where the recipient can discern the return-path for acknowledgements and responses. We do it all the time with ordinary e-mail: the first time I ever got an e-mail - totally unsolicited - from Christopher J. Feahr, OD, I managed to automatically "capture" his e-mail address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] If he had digitally "signed" his e-mail, I would have had his public key, also, for authenticating that only [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not necessarily Christopher J. Feahr) had sent the message - and for encrypting responses back to him.
It remains to be seen if that's good enough for the payer (to whom Chris may have sent a claim or eligibility request) for determining if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really Christopher J. Feahr, OD. If Chris were a participating provider, then more likely the payer might have his EDI e-mail address on file and would prefer to rely on that. With the advent of the National Provider ID, Certificate Authorities might be willing to vouch for Chris and sign his digital ID with enough information confirming that the signer really is the provider assigned a particular NPI. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher J. Feahr, OD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: auto-discovery of the "return path" (In the Kepa-DNS model) Speaking of semantics, we should figure out a standard term for the DNS model that Kepa has suggested. Anyway, in that model, if a "small provider" (also needs a definition!) is able to send a claim (or anything) directly to a payor using the health plan's "smart EDI address"... will this automatically mean that the payor will be able to discover the address/route back to the provider for 271s, 824s, etc.? (I assume that the 835 will require special handling in a provider-payor agreement) Does the provider's EDI address automatically get entered into the "DNS table" in this proposed model? -Chris Christopher J. Feahr, OD http://visiondatastandard.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell/Pager: 707-529-2268
