Medicare Fee-For-Service Implementation of HIPAA 5010/D.0 – Errata Impacts

The purpose of this message is to clearly communicate the approach that Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) is taking to ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA’s) new versions of the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions. The Standards Development Organizations have made corrections to the 5010 version of certain transactions. The Errata versions replace the Base versions for HIPAA compliance. HIPAA compliance will require the implementation of the Errata versions and the Base versions for those transactions not affected by the Errata. Compliance with the Errata must be achieved by the original regulation compliance date of January, 2012.