Hi - just a couple of comments on p. 3. 1) Paragraph 1, sentence 2: "It is expected that testing with trading partners will occur between April an October of 2003, as most of the industry is expecte to file for the ASCA extenstion." I strongly suggest striking out this sentence, and modifying the one that follows. Reasoning: there is some trading partner testing - b to b - going on today. There's no reason for everyone to wait until 4/03 for b-to-b testing, even if they HAVE filed for ASCA. We don't HAVE to all be overwhelmed, I hope...
2) First paragraph, last line, I suggest replacing the line with "...HIPAA and they have completed their own internal compliance test phase". Similarly, second to last paragraph (penultimate paragraph - gotta show off my knowledge of arcane words :^>) - first line of paragraph - I'd suggest replacing "tested" with "internally tested". But I'm not fully happy with that phrasing either - the problem with the sentence is that third party certification would be part of transaction compliance testing, not subsequent to it. 3) Last three lines, same page - I suggest striking "Most trading partners are not ready to produce outgoing transactions" - assuming that that's the case now, by the time the paper is published that may have changed. And in some parts of the country, that is changing more rapidly than in others, but that fact doesn't change the appropriateness of pre-b-to-b compliance certification for the early adopters. But most importantly, the argument for TCS compliance certification can apply even after trading partners are producing outgoing transactions - when we're past the initialTCS implementation hump, covered entities and their business associates will continue to enhance the systems that feed the EDI transactions, and will enhance the ways that they use the transactions (e.g. by adding previously-paper-filed PPO claims to their electronic filings). Continuing with transactions compliance certification is probably not a bad idea for the regression testing process...not as important as during the initial HIPAA-fi-cation of things, but may still be handy... Best wishes - Cynthia Cynthia Korman, CHE, MS, MBA Principal Strategic System Solutions, LLC 973 394-9529 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.healthcare-systems.com ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request.
