Your question may bring up more options than you might have expected. Providers may contact you through clearinghouse/remittance processing vendors, through their banks, or directly, and ask for a variety of claim payment options. A provider opting to receive the electronic remittance information through a network of clearinghouses and vendors will have them contact you indicating that those vendors are ready to accept/test on behalf of that provider. Many providers will want to be paid with electronic funds transfers ( after all Congress did require designation of a Claim Payment Standard in HIPAA) and that will involve the banking system. There are several execution options including sending the 835 remittance data with the electronic funds transfer through the banking system or sending the money and data separately. All of these can be accomodated by the HIPAA-compliant 835. By the way, set up of electronic payment options should not be done based on incoming information on an 837.
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