With regard to the merger of two companies, actually Anthem and Trigon have
way more than just two NAIC numbers. I'm sure that each has numerous
licensed affiliates and subsidiaries -- particularly Anthem. Each of these
licensed entities has an NAIC number.
As for which NAIC number remains, p
I still don't know how BC/BS entities identify themselves if they don't
all have NAIC Company codes. Can someone let me know?
But outfits are always merging and acquiring - and our registry and
Electronic Partner Profiles (CPP) can easily accommodate these
eventualities. There's really no need
Not to muddy the waters any more but Trigon BC/BS and Anthem BC/BS
announced today they are merging. It will be interesting to see if they
completely merge (one payer ID) or are maintained as 2 separate entities
(unlikely). There might be issues like payer ID and or Plan ID cutover
dates. It wi
Ronald:
If we had any "discussion about how information is processed prior to
the lookup," it was solely in the context of the provider obtaining the
ID of the plan or payer (somehow - perhaps from the insurance card), or
the payer using the usually present Tax ID of the provider. We have to
mak
Ron,
There is no doubt that the patient is "the weakest link" in this discovery
process. In vision care, when the patient is unsure of the payor/plan, we
routinely query one or two of the largest payors with both the patient's
and the presumed subscriber's SSN numbers... just because it's easy
William,
If you recall, there was discussion about how information is processed
prior to the lookup. To solve the routing issues, must we first
understand the process that occurs before routing can begin? Should we
identify and validate our assumptions about the pre-routing process? It
seems
Peter Barry and I presented a session on Identifiers, EDI Addressing and
Routing at the Fourth National HIPAA Summit at the Renaissance Marriott
in Washington, DC. last Friday. See http://www.hipaasummit.com/ for
more information about the HIPAA Summit. The presentation slides
themselves are ava
