CORRECTION -- Comment Period Closing Date Changed

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From: "David A. Feinberg, C.D.P." <dafeinberg@...>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Public Comment Period for X12's 5010 820 Health Insurance
Deductions and Payments TR3


A draft version of X12N's version 005010 820 Payroll Deducted and
Other Group Premium Payment for Insurance Products Implementation Guide,
005010X218, is now available for public review and comment as a key
step in its X12 Type 3 Technical Report (TR3) publication process.

The public comment period for this guide commenced on 2 June 2005 and
will close on Tuesday, 2 August 2005, at 5:00 pm Eastern time.

The purpose of this 820 Implementation Guide is to assist those sending
premium payments to an insurance company, health care organization or
government agency. The intent of this implementation guide is to meet
the health care industry's specific need for standardized data
requirements for providing remittance reconciliation information.

This is X12's only unconstrained public comment period. The authors of
this guide will consider all comments during and following the public
comment period. For a complete understanding of changes being suggested
and/or made to this guide, reviewers should monitor the on-line
conference during the public comment period and consider all author
responses prior to the Informational Forum. Official authoring work
group responses will be posted to the on-line conference at least 15
days prior to the Informational Forum.

An announcement of the Informational Forum will be made later. The
Informational Forum, held during an X12 Trimester Meeting, probably the
one during the last full week of September, 2005, [see
http://x12.org/x12org/meetings/x12trimt/index.cfm ], is the final X12
opportunity to comment: but only on modifications based on the received
public comments. After that, the guide is finalized for movement
through the Insurance Subcommittee (X12N) and X12 publication approval
processes.

The draft implementation guide is available for free download at:
http://www.wpc-edi.com/products/publications/x218 . Comments on the
draft should be submitted via the on-line conference at:
http://www.wpc-edi.com/conferences/healthcare.html .

The Payroll Deducted and Other Group Premium Payment for Insurance
Products Implementation Guide, 005010X218, is a newer version, 005010,
of the ones of the same title presently adopted under HIPAA, 004010 and
004010A1. The present plan is to propose the finalized version of this
draft guide, modified based on any public comments, as a new HIPAA
standard.

Participation in the public comment period for this guide is open to
all who may be interested; whether or not members of Accredited
Standards Committee X12. Please participate -- this is the highest
leverage opportunity for anybody outside of the authors to impact this
document.

Dave Feinberg
Co-chair, HIPAA Implementation Work Group
Insurance Subcommittee (X12N)
Accredited Standards Committee X12
Rensis Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
DAFeinberg@...