Missing External Code Lists

For some external code lists specified in the HIPAA transaction Implementation Guides or TR3s, there is not an associated external code list in the HIPAA transaction guidelines supplied with BusinessConnect Container Edition - EDI Protocol HIPAA Edition powered by Instream.

Some of the external code lists specified in the HIPAA transaction Implementation Guides or TR3s are actually comprised of other external code lists. Another external code list is listed in the HIPAA transaction Implementation Guides or TR3s but is not actually used by any transaction. These code lists are listed in the following table:

External Code Lists Without Codelists

Code List

Description

60

Depository Financial Institution (DFI) Identification Number. This code list is composed of two other code lists. A qualifier specifies which of the two code lists is used when specifying the DFI Identification Number.

The following two code lists can be used to specify the DFI Identification Number:

• 4        ABA Transit Routing Number
• 91     Canadian Bank Branch and Institution Number

77

X12 Directories. This external code list is not used by any HIPAA transaction. It is used in 997 Functional Acknowledgements.

94

International Organization for Standardization (Date and Time). This code list does not contain actual values, but specifies the time format to use. The time zone codes are included as an internal code list based on X12 standards.

158

Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). This code list is used in the Interchange header for the 820 transaction.

The EDI Conversion Engine does not perform data validation against external code lists for the envelope segments (interchange and group) of the EDI data. It is the responsibility of the user to make sure that the information they configure for the interchange and group headers is correct.