Unless an interchange is going through a pass-thru intermediary - a
switch or a VAN - which delivers EDI for many entities, it probably
really doesn't matter what's in the receiver field of the ISA, does it?
If I deliver an interchange to Anthem, directly, doesn't it stand to
reason that the inter
Chris,
This issue of defining who the "real" sender and receiver are was brought up
early in this list's history. At that time I strongly recommended that a
project glossary be developed so that, at least for discussion purposes
here, we would have clear definitions of terms. Alas
On the oth
William,
Youbetcha! If/when the NPID becomes real, and when payers all agree to apply
for and get one, and then when they all agree to put the identifiers on the
cards, we'll all be very happy. Ditto the Nat'l provider IDs for inclusion
in the ISAs (are providers even required to apply for them?)
- Original Message -
From: William J. Kammerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'WEDi/SNIP ID & Routing' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: How can we treat real time as a secondary issue?
> But should the provider have to
> make the decisions to implement the
Mimi,
No, you have a good point. What the Medicare Fiscal Intermediaries are being
told regarding their DDE capabilities is that they cannot make the EDI
process more burdensome or difficult to use than the existing capabilities,
and that they cannot bias use of DDE over EDI by making the use of E
Chris,
Actually, that was also my impression. But Rachel & David Feinberg have
been suggesting for the last couple of months (see their posts around
1/22/02) that it should be the endpoint receiver, and in William's
discussion of the same title (posted 4/2/02):
> > . . . .
> >So we probably only
I am impressed by your analysis...but I do have one area of
disagreement. I I agree that payers provide many ways other then X12
transactions to access eligibility, claim status, etc..and that it would
probably be easier for providers to continue using those services then
make the time and financ
