I don't really think WEDI would agree to maintain a registry for HIPAA covered entities. This is really a full time job. If the Government were going to have the National Provider and Plan ID databases, maybe the CPPs could be pointed to by them. But at this rate, I don't think anyone is going to be seeing NPI and Plan ID databases any time soon!
So if we want a directory of Healthcare CPPs, it's going to have to be either 1) Kepa's DNS directory, (2) the ebXML Registry, or (3) UDDI - probably maintained by an organization that makes a living from this. Frankly, I don't know how you build a business model around directories, but there are enough vendors - and not just your chintzy pre-IPO B2B startups, but real substantial outfits like IBM and Sun - tripping over themselves to provide hosting, registry services and software. This is why, as part of our "liaison" with the OASIS ebXML Registry TC, we're also talking to vendors about an actual implementation. The same thing can be done with UDDI, which Joe McVerry has volunteered to research for the purposes of a Healthcare Registry. I used to always call this Registry the "WEDI/SNIP" directory, really only to develop a sense of "ownership" among the WEDI/SNIP ID & Routing folks - in no way did I mean the WEDI Board of Directors has ever approved of such an animal or would have WEDI run it. From now on, to avoid confusion, we should just call it the "Healthcare" CPP directory. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher J. Feahr, OD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WEDi/SNIP ID & Routing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 29 March, 2002 04:19 PM Subject: Re: A Rose By Any Other Name... William, Some of our "preferred ID" discussions seem to be flipping back and forth between the preferred ID-key for the "CPP Registry" and the ID that the message receiver would prefer to have in the ISA... one of the items that would be enumerated in the CPP Registry record. If there were several healthcare CPP registry services available (perhaps WEDI would agree to maintain one for HIPAA covered entities), I would think that a good key for an organization's CPP record would be the FEIN. Regarding the discovery of the preferred "return path" to the small provider, a payor could take the provider's FEIN from the individual transaction (a 270, for example) and look up that provider's CPP... and determine [for example] that he likes all his 271s sent to a CH maintained by his OMS vendor, and his 835s sent to his bank. I know I'm supposed to be researching the innards of the CPP being proposed by OASIS (haven't gotten to it yet!), but for our purposes it would certainly need to contain the preferred ISA receiver info for each of the HIPAA transactions, as receivers may want certain transactions sent to different EDI addresses. Is this the general scenario you have in mind, William? -Chris Christopher J. Feahr, OD http://visiondatastandard.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell/Pager: 707-529-2268
