It has acted as a barrier to small suppliers and providers that want to participate in the state and local markets. In state Medicaid programs, which provide unique services to disadvantaged clients, EDI has been incompatible with the special code sets used for transactions. Despite these problems, the federal government has decided to forge ahead with EDI as the universal standard for health care. So far, attempts by state officials to garner some leeway with these regulations have met with little success. Already, the first nine standard transaction codes have been set.
More standards are on their way, including standards for privacy.
In addition, state Medicaid programs must contend with all the providers, state agencies and other programs within Medicaid with whom they exchange data. Of course, the same was said about Y2K, and look what happened. Wait and see. Please list your telephone number for confirmation. Publication is solely at the discretion of the editors.