Bill, Your interpretation is correct. If the inbound claim contained a 26-character identifier in CLM01 it would indeed be HIPAA compliant, since the maximum length defined in the guide is 38 characters.
The grey notes politely instruct the claim submitter to limit the identifier to 20 characters, as the receiving entity need only store twenty characters for this data item. That also means that any responding transaction that references this field (such as the 835) is only required to return 20 characters. Tom Drinkard EDIT, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (678) 795-1251 (voice) (775) 458-6117 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 837D IG understanding Hi, In the 837D IG pg 150 Under the CLM01 in Grey it reads "characters beyond '20' are not REQUIRED to be stored nor returned by any 837 receiving system" so what I get out of this is, in the HIPAA process anything over 20 char's is not used/stored/forwarded on but nowhere does it say that it should fail compliance if over 20char? is this the correct interpretation? thanks Bill __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.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. ====================================================== The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. Posting of advertisements or other commercial use of this listserv is specifically prohibited. ********************************************************************** 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. ====================================================== The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. Posting of advertisements or other commercial use of this listserv is specifically prohibited.
