Rachel Foerster said:
>
> The real question is that the value of a 997 in the case of HIPAA standard
> transactions which reports ONLY against the full X12 standard is
> insuffficient. Rather, the question and the need is for a 997 to report
> compliance not only against the X12 standard but ALSO the appropriate HIPAA
> IG.
Many passioned arguments have been put forward to allow the 997 to legally
perform just this function. We all know in practice that the 997 is used
in this way 90% of the time. Equally passioned arguments were made for
the purity of the 997 as originally written. The latter prevailed.
Now everyone knows: to use the 997 to report against anything other than the
bare X12 standard is an X12-illegal operation - a statutory non-compliance.
> My personal opinion is that the 997 that will be of most value would be one
> reporting against the HIPAA IG and not just against the standard.
HIPAA will have to adopt TS 824 if reporting against the IC is required.
There seems to be no alternative.
Jonathan
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