Speaking of confidential and secret stuff, like supposedly, y'know, HIN
numbers - where if you even look at one of 'em, your eyes will melt like
what happened to that Nazi guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark - I have a
correspondent telling me that payers often regard their HIPAA IG
companion guides
- Original Message -
From: William J. Kammerer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WEDi/SNIP ID Routing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: More Stuff and Questions on Routing Identifiers
I noticed that the 835 guide does not have the ABA Routing Identifier
listed as
Bill:
I can't speak for the other payors, but our Plan has been eager to see a
national provider ID for some time now.
We use multiple proprietary IDs and have wanted to consolidate onto one
new number -- we even had a project to modify the provider ID fields in
all of our systems.
William,
Your public criticism and sarcasm about the HIN system, about which you
obviously know very little and about which you appear to have a closed mind
because it doesn't conform to what you want it to be, is getting a bit
tedious and annoying. The HIN is widely used in both human and
Ken:
Your comments are very helpful - thanks for writing in. And it's good
to see even payers want a standard provider ID, rather than relying on
proprietary schemes. Actually, our group is concerned mostly with the
provider ID as used in the sender ID on the ISA, but the same issues
probably
