Jonathan, et al,
Subsequent to posting my message to the EHNAC site for HIPAA test
transactions I received the following message from Kepa. I was hoping to
hear from Lee Barrett before now to get some up-to-date information about
when the EHNAC site would have HIPAA compliant test transactions available.
Since I have not heard from Lee (it's now 1:50pm Wednesday, 2/14...Happy
Valentine's day to all!) I felt it important for interested parties to have
Kepa's information. If and when I get current info from Lee I'll post it as
well.
Please note that I'm not posting Kepa's message to in any way cast stones at
EHNAC, but only to let interested parties know that at the present time
reliance on EHNAC for valid HIPAA test transactions is risky. I'm sure that
EHNAC is working diligently to make sure that future test transactions will
indeed be fully HIPAA compliant.
Rachel
> When I pointed you to the STFCS web site of EHNAC I was not aware of the
> quality of their transactions.
>
> Now, after some detailed analysis of the transactions downloadable from
> STFCS, I have determined that a substantial number of them are NOT
> compliant with HIPAA. There are some transactions with very basic X12
> syntax errors. Other transactions (most of them?) do not meet the
> implementation guide requirements.
>
> This comes from several problems with the STFCS system, the most
> essential one being the inability of STFCS to check relationships and
> dependencies across multiple segments. STFCS checks one segment at a
> time, and if all the segments, taken independently, pass the HIPAA
> requirements, the transaction is deemed compliant. This is not enough
> detail of testing to meet the HIPAA requirements. In fact, if you have
> access to EDISIM with the HIPAA guidelines you can check this yourself.
> Or you can take some of the STFCS transactions and run them against the
> free FORESIGHT Previsto server yourself. The results will shock you.
>
> I have discussed this problem with Lee Barrett, executive director of
> EHNAC, and he has brought it to the attention of Washington Publishing.
> WPC operates the STFCS web site. I would expect this situation to be
> corrected in the near future, as it is creating tremendous liability for
> EHNAC by issuing certification of compliance to transactions that are
> clearly broken. I wish I could correct this situation immediately, but
> I resigned from the EHNAC Commissioner position last summer, so the best
> I can do is to bring this issue up to Lee Barrett for their action.
>
> As you may be aware, my new company, Claredi, is putting together a
> commercial HIPAA testing and compliance service, and we will be
> distributing sample transactions for people to test their translators.
> The first set of transactions (837s, 835) should be available on our web
> site in March. Other transaction soon thereafter.
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Rachel Foerster pointed us at a source of HIPAA compliant transactions:
>
> Go to www.ehnac.org, follow the link on the left to the Standard
Transaction
> Format Compliance System, then follow the link on the left for the Library
> of Compliant Transmissions.
Sadly, the first twenty of these are all unavailable, returning the
following
error:
HTTP 500.100 - Internal Server Error - ASP error
aspSmartUpload(0x800A0035)
File not found
/Library_download.asp, line 33
It seems a shame to have such a broken web-site ... I gave up after twenty
web-server failures.
Are these not available simply as one ZIP file, so save having to click
on each one separately ?
Jonathan
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