Functional Acknowledgments and Reponses
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Transcript of Functional Acknowledgments and Reponses
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Functional Acknowledgments and Reponses
Lisa S MillerCOO
Washington Publishing Company
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Acknowledgement
– The act of admitting or owning to something. – Recognition of another's existence, validity, authority, or
right. – An answer or response in return for something done. – An expression of thanks or a token of appreciation. – A formal declaration made to authoritative witnesses to
ensure legal validity.
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Acknowledgements and HIPAA
• Acknowledgement References– Located in Appendix B – EDI Control Directory
• Includes the TA1 and the 997
• Acknowledgements may also be business level responses– Example: Request for Eligibility Request and Response
• The HIPAA documentation (IG) is based on information that was available with version 4010 years ago.
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40 Thousand Foot View
Transaction A Transaction B Organization B Organization A
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Acknowledgement?
– The act of admitting or owning to something. – Recognition of another's existence, validity, authority, or
right. – An answer or response in return for something done. – An expression of thanks or a token of appreciation. – A formal declaration made to authoritative witnesses to
ensure legal validity.
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X12 Acknowledgements
• Trading Partner Agreements• Not required but strongly recommended• Have specific intended use
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X12 Acknowledgements
• Delivery Acknowledgements– TA1 – Basic Interchange Acknowledgment– TA3 – Interchange Delivery Notice
• Syntactic Response Acknowledgements– 997 – Functional Acknowledgment– 999 – Implementation Acknowledgment
• Business Application Acknowledgements– 824 – Application Advice– Response Transaction
• Example 270/271
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X12 Acknowledgements
Transaction A TA1 Organization B Organization A
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X12 Acknowledgements
Organization B
Organization A EDI Gateway
997
Transaction A
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Implementation Guide (TR3) Acknowledgements
Organization B
Organization A EDI GatewayWith IG ‘Edits’
999
Transaction A
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Application Advice
Organization B
Organization A
EDI GatewayWith IG ‘Edits’
824
Transaction A
Business
Application
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Response Transaction
Organization B
Organization A
EDI GatewayWith IG ‘Edits’
Transaction B
Transaction A
Business Application – Work completed
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Other information
* Image from the WEDI Whitepaper Front End Edits Whitepaper Version 1.0 ( currently being revised)
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X12 Sequence Diagram
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HIPAA Examples
• 270/271 Realtime Example
• 270/271 Batch Example
270 271
TA1270 bad
270
270
997
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HIPAA Examples
• 837 Example
837
835
TA1
999
997
824
277
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Technical choices interact with Business issues
– Trading partner agreements– ‘Batch’ verses ‘single’– ‘Positive’ and ‘negative’ acknowledgement handling– Choices
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Conclusions
Business needs and technical requirements intersect at the point of acknowledgment communication.
The Healthcare industry needs to define specific implementation guides (TR3) for the purpose of defining the business needs within the X12 acknowledgement framework.