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837P Companion Guide - Peach State Health Plan Peach State ...

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SECTION 03: INTERCHANGE CONTROL STRUCTUREOverviewAppendix A, Section A.1.1 of each X12N HIPAA IG provides detail about the rules for ensuringintegrity and maintaining the efficiency of data exchange. Data files are transmitted in anelectronic envelope. The communication envelope consists of an interchange envelope andfunctional groups. The interchange control structure is used for inbound and outbound files. Aninbound interchange control structure is the envelope that wraps all transaction data (ST-SE)sent to PEACH STATE HEALTH PLAN for processing. Examples include 837, 270 and 276transactions. An outbound interchange control structure wraps transactions that are created byPEACH STATE HEALTH PLAN and returned to the requesting provider or contracted vendor.Examples of outbound transactions include 835, 271 and 277 transactions. The followingtables define the use of this control structure as it relates to communication with PEACH STATEHEALTH PLAN.Inbound TransactionsSegmentNameSegment IDLoop IDUsageSegmentNotesInterchange Control HeaderISAN/ARequiredAll positions within each data element in the ISA segment must be filled.Delimiters are specified in the interchange header segment.The character immediately following the segment ID, ISA, defines the dataelements separator. The last character in the segment defines the componentelement separator, and the segment terminator is the byte that immediatelyfollows the component element separator. Examples of the separators are asfollows:Character Name Delimiter* Asterisk Data Element Separator: Colon Sub-element Separator~ Tilde Segment TerminatorWhile it is not required that submitters use these specific delimiters it is recommended, sincethey are the ones that the PEACH STATE HEALTH PLAN uses for all outbound transactions.12

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