While you are busy worrying about the meaning of incentive, please don't lose track of the fact that, in addition to not supplying an incentive, you will still be bound to the requirement of full data content. In other words, if your existing DDE is not already engineered to exchange the full data content in both directions that will be required by HIPAA, and you expect to simply leave that DDE in place without enhancement to meet this requirement, you will have a much bigger problem than whether you are offering an incentive.
Our understanding of the requirements for DDE is that you must both comply with the full data content rule AND refrain from offering an incentive for DDE users to use DDE rather than submitting a standard transaction. > >From: "Robert Huffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Owens, Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stuart Beaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > >"David Frenkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: Internet Transaction limitations? > >Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:33:49 -0500 > > > >I am getting very tired of this groups dissertation on DDE and incentive. > > >DDE exists today, and sometimes returns data as a response to data > entered > >and sometimes it is only Data Directly Entered with no response. The > HIPAA > >stance on DDE is that a payer cannot offer an incentive to use DDE (data > >only without regard to format). Where do you people get the idea that > >simply using an existing DDE can be construed to be an incentive? We > have > >waited several months for HHS to clarify the meaning of incentive, yet > most > >of you have already made up your mind and are trying to convince the rest > > >of us. Stop it. Wait for HHS. > > > >HIPAA is based upon Administrative Simplification. This discussion on > what > >amount of data can be returned on a complete HIPAA transaction and in > what > >time frame is ludicrous. DDE exists today and will exist tomorrow. > Until > >HHS tells us that every HIPAA transaction must be as complete and as fast > > >as currently existing DDE operations then get off this wagon. HHS will > >clarify in time what is meant by incentive. Continuing tomorrow what we > do > >today is not an incentive. Money is an incentive. > > > >Bob Huffman > >RealMed Corporation > >Indianapolis, Indiana
