--- You wrote: HIPAA seemes to me to be overly ambitious in this assumption that a standard document is a magical solution to disparate business systems and processes. I have not seen business revamping their entire processing systems to conform to HIPAA requirements, but rather external patches (tape, paperclips and chewing gum).
It seems that without the "mass upgrade to every provider's desktop software" which would equate to a standard business process across the board, how will HIPAA ever work? And the same should extend to the backend systems of the major payors. Without these commitments, this is going to be a long rough ride. --- end of quote --- I agree with you underlying premise, that unless everyone eventually revamp their backend systems this is little more than another layer of patches and conversions on top of everything else. But, if this becomes the standard, then everyone will eventually go to a backend system that works directly with the format, that seems clear to me. In 3 years, if you were a payer who needed to upgrade your processing system, wouldn't you lean towards a system that read 837's and produced 835's? -Chris Healy Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center PFS-Payments Mgr 603-650-3730 ********************************************************************** 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.
