Yes, I was disappointed at the reticence of most of Claredi's directory participants to share their information. Most of it's locked down and available only to other members of their trading "group." Obviously, the main purpose of the Claredi directory is to share information on certification progress: perhaps folks are humbled that they are not further along in achieving compliance, and don't want the rest of the world to know! I guess that's only natural.
In any case, as Chris notes, the same "shyness" will affect our Healthcare CPP Registry. If people are not too keen on even publicizing their address and phone number, they probably won't give away to just anyone as to how to send transactions their way. Even though I'm absolutely confident we can come up with technological solutions to expose information only to others in certain categories, that still will not get people over their agoraphobia. This is a social engineering problem that mere technology will not solve. On the positive side, clearinghouses are always anxious to advertise the payers they support - I suppose that's a selling point to providers. So at least CHs will probably be happy to prime the pump with payer CPPs - which will naturally point to portals at those very same clearinghouses! Keep in mind that the CPP (electronic partner profile) is really not dependent on a global, public federated registry. These are just standardized XML documents with machine readable information that describe the partner's capabilities: certification, financial institution data and EDI addresses, inter alia. The CPP doesn't have to reside in a public directory. A payer could continue to do business the old way, where a provider has to fill out all sorts of paperwork, sign TPAs, endure hideous EDI enrollment delays and whatnot. And at the end of all this, he'd be e-mailed - what else? - a nice CPP! William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859 +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher J. Feahr, OD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William J. Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WEDi/SNIP ID & Routing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 21 May, 2002 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Electronic Funds Transfer and Security William, Thanks very much for this information about the banking world... as unsettling as it is. It may turn out that other CPP information about payors and providers will have to be semi-restricted as well. I noticed, for example, that some Claredi customers have chosen to restrict public access to some of their directory fields, even though the information looks pretty harmless to me. Of course, the whole point of our CPP record is to make it widely available... but to one's potential partners... not necessarily to one's "competition"... and maybe not very much of it in one query, no matter who you are. I would expect payments in most low-volume or CPP-initiated trading relationships to continue to be paper checks for the next few years... mailed to the address in the CPP record. In the hi-volume relationships, it will probably be necessary to send a voided paper check, sign a few forms, etc. in order to set up a direct-deposit, electronic payment arrangement anyway. So all we may need in the CPP record now is a place to indicate preferences/abilities with respect to electronic payments. -Chris Christopher J. Feahr, OD http://visiondatastandard.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell/Pager: 707-529-2268
