Appendix B: Response Documents (Acknowledgments) and Custom Reports

Overview of Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments are used to give feedback to the sender of a transaction on the status of the acceptance of the transaction by its recipient. For X12, acknowledgments such as 997 and 999 are used to provide feedback to trading partners on the validation success or failure of transactions they have sent. For EDIFACT, the CONTRL acknowledgment is used for this purpose. For HIPAA, there are acknowledgments used in the health care industry to report on the validation success or failure of business level application edits. These business-level acknowledgments are the 277 Unsolicited Health Care Claim Status Notification (277 U), 277 Claim Acknowledgment (277CA), and the 824 Application Advice.

Refer to Types of Response Documents for additional information.

Overview of Custom Reports

In addition to standardized acknowledgments like 824 and 999, Response Generator can be used to create customized reports from transactions validated by Instream.

This is done by creating a custom report template specifying the information you want to see and directing Response Generator to generate a text report using the specified template.

Refer to Response Generator Custom Reports for additional information.