Dear Health Care Claims and Claims Attachment Stakeholder:

 

The Standards Development Organizations (SDO), Health Level Seven (HL7) and Accredited Standards Committee (ASC X12) Insurance Subcommittee (X12N), are collaborating on a project to determine where supportive data should reside.  Currently some supportive data is included in the 837 electronic claims because there was no “attachment” standard available for use. The SDO's are inviting the industry to participate in this project. 

Since 1997, the SDOs have been collaborating in developing a standard electronic attachment transaction. In addition, HL7 has developed standardized content for various attachment types.

 HL7 and X12N feel that this project is extremely important to the industry and cannot be accomplished without the input of industry experts such as you. 

Once finalized, changes will be submitted for the “next round” of HIPAA, and all entities will have to comply with them. Please take time to consider the importance of this task and  join us in this endeavor. 

Contact June Rosploch at june.rosploch@... by Friday, November 14, 2008 with your representatives contact information as outlined in the accompanied attachment. Upon receipt of the contact person’s information we will establish communication with them to schedule the initial task group teleconference call. We also ask that you forward this invitation to any person or organization that you feel would be able to contribute to the development of the standardized additional information for this DDCP initiative.

See attachment (DDCP_Attachment_1.doc) for details of the anticipated work effort and volunteer enlistment process.

Sincerely,

HL7 and X12 DDCP Project Coordinators

June Rosploch

John Bock      

Maria Ward

Mary Lynn Bushman

Sue Thompson