Re: Identifying / Coding Medications in
Electronic Claims Attachments

The list at the end of this message shows the medication coding systems
that are included in HL7's HIPAA-proposed Medications Claims Attachment
Additional Information Specification.

It would be a service to our industry if you and your colleagues
would take just a few minutes and flag those coding systems you
presently use internally (e.g., for ordering, interaction checking,
dispensing, administering, drug utilization review, paying for)
and externally (e.g., for claims and potentially claims attachments) to
identify and communicate drugs and biologics.

As one of the alternatives specified in the HIPAA Claims Attachments
Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), kindly submit your opinion to
www.cms.hhs.gov/regulations/ecomments . Click "Go" for CMS-0050-P,
fill in some minimal demographics on a screen, and then click
"Continue" to type up to 4,000 characters into the displayed comment
box ... and/or include a file as an attachment. If it's easiest, you
can just copy and paste the list below into the comment box, and
then add your response following each. Or do the same in a file and
then attach the file to the comment box.

[Note: Due to currently ongoing maintenance activities on CMS' web
site, the above url may not take you directly to the comment inputs
screens. Should that be the situation, as described in the NPRM,
telephone Lorraine Tunis Doo at 410-786-6597 for further instructions.]

Please comment no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, 23
January 2006. Thanks in advance for your participation, and feel free
to forward this message to anybody else you believe would be interested
in opining.

Dave Feinberg
Rensis Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
DAFeinberg@...


MEDICATIONS CLAIMS ATTACHMENT DRUG CODING SYSTEMS
NDC
HCPCS; primarily J-series codes
First DataBank
Micromedix/Medical Economics
Multum
Medi-Span
RX.Norm
[other ... please specify]

{source: HL7's CDAR1AIS0006R021, May 2004, §2.1}
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