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Chapter 1 Introduction to HIPAA Protocol : User External Code Lists

User External Code Lists
TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol HIPAA Edition powered by Instream allows you to change or add to existing code tables, as well as add completely new code tables to use for validation. Using this feature, you can:
By default, TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol HIPAA Edition powered by Instream looks for user external code lists in the file:
TIBCO_HOME/instream/version_number/bin/SampleUserTable.txt
After installation, this file is empty and has a length of zero (0). The following sections explain how to edit this file to customize use of external codes during validation.
For detailed information on managing custom external codes and code lists, see the document Changing Desktop and Instream Code Tables in the following file of your TIBCO Foresight HIPAA Validator Desktop installation:
HIPAA Validator Home/Doc/ExtendingCodeTables.pdf
This document also contains the current list of code table names.
Adding External Codes
To add your own custom codes to be used during validation, edit the file SampleUserTable.txt and add your custom codes by adding lines to the file using the following format:
^USER<code table name>
<code>|<start date>|<end date>|<code description>
The start date and end date have the format yyyymmdd. If left blank, use of the specified code will always be allowed. For example, to add a custom ZIP code which can be used regardless of transaction date, add the following line to the SampleUserTable.txt file:
^USERZip
99999|||Special zip code with no start or end date
Deleting External Codes
To delete and external code from an existing code table, edit the file SampleUserTable.txt and add entries which specify the codes to be deleted using the following format:
^USER<code table name>
<code>|del|<end date>|<code description>
Specifying a code to be deleted uses the same format as is used for specify a code to be added except that 'del' is specified as the <start date>. When deleting codes, anything entered for the <end date> and <code description> are ignored. For example, to indicate that use of the zip code 94304 should be invalid, add the following lines to the ELCTable.txt file:
^USERZip
94304|del||
Disabling an External Code List
TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol HIPAA Edition powered by Instream also allows you to disable the use of an entire code list during validation. To disable an entire code list, add an entry to the SampleUserTable.txt file in the following format:
^<code table name> %DISABLE%
For example, to disable use of Taxonomy Codes enter the following into the SampleUserTable.txt file:
^TaxonomyCodes %DISABLE%

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