Alan, I'm one of the X12 Claim Status work group co-chairs, your assumptions are correct, only the 276/277 paired 004010X093 (implementation guide designation) is specifically named under the HIPAA Final Rules. My work group has already developed a 277 implementation guide in Version 004020 (004020X104) as a triggering mechanism for a payer to request additional information about a healthcare claim from a provider. This guide is part of the overall model for Claim Attachments which includes the ASC X12 275 transaction for enveloping the HL7 booklets which were jointly developed between HL7 and ASC X12. The three components, are at some point in time, to be named in a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) published in the Federal Register. Both groups were hoping that would have already happened by now. Finally the work group is currently developing an update for the Front End Acknowledgement implementation in version 004040. There is a draft status of the version 003070 available on the WPC site which was pre-Y2K, but there have been instances in the industry of successful implementation of that draft IG. Bottom line, the only HIPAA implementation guide right now is the paired 276/277 as named in the Final Rule. The other business functions for which there are Claim Status implementation guides are yet to be added to the HIPAA suite of named transactions. Michael J. Cabral EDS 800 Connecticut BLVD 3rd Floor East Hartford, CT 06108 *Voice: (860) 622 - 4733 7 Fax: (860) 622 - 4774 *Voice: (405) 717-8132 (OKC, OK) * MAILTO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB ADDRESS:WWW.EDS.COM -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 276/277 Great question. We had a discussion on that just yesterday. Page 11 section 1.3 of the 276/277 guide says separate guides are provided for the unsolicited 277 and the 277 request for additional information. We determined they were X12 additional guides that we haven't been able to obtain yet. I haven't found anything within HIPAA beyond the paired 276/277. Something more official would be nice but we have not included the stand alone 277's in our mandatory list. ********************************************************************** 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. ********************************************************************** 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.
