Introduction > About HIPAA 999 Master

The HIPAA 999 Master is an advanced tool for healthcare electronic acknowledgments in 999 form.

The HIPAA act of 1996 mandates that every medical transaction that is sent electronically conforms to strict standards. These standards are developed by ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, under the umbrella of the X12 committee for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). X12 contains standards for hundreds of electronic data interchanges. Implementation Acknowledgments (previously Functional Acknowledgments) are contained in the 999 transaction set. X12 standards are continuously developing. The current HIPAA compliant version is versions 5010.

Electronic claims were introduced in the 1990's and made mandatory by 1/1/2003. During the last decade, the adaptation of this electronic format was phenomenal. More than 90% of claims are now (2012) transmitted electronically and other transactions gains in traction every year. Receiving and interpreting 999 files becomes more and more important in healthcare. But as with all EDI, the raw data is hard to understand and even harder to interpret. The lay person is hopelessly lost when confronted with EDI files. Tools are needed to translate the information.

The HIPAA 999 Master is such a tool. It gives the user total control over 999 files. The application translates all error and warning codes into humanly understandable information. It c

The HIPAA 999 Master reads X12 999 EDI implementation acknowledgment files and parses the response information with its built-in EDI translator into distinct transactions. These transactions can be viewed on the screen or exported to a database. Acknowledgment tables can be created within any ODBC/OleDB compliant database such as a Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or MYSQL. The acknowledgment data is then accessible to your own applications plus you can search this data warehouse and even recreate the image from the database records.