October 14, 2008 CEDI Front End Update for ALL Trading Partners, Suppliers and Vendors

As of October 14, 2008 the Common Electronic Data Interchange (CEDI) system is no longer experiencing delays in processing inbound files received from trading partners.

All inbound files received since October 6, 2008 have been processed, delivered to the DME MACs and all front-end reports have been delivered back to the Trading Partner’s CEDI mailbox. All claim files delivered were stamped with the receipt date of the file at CEDI. Any delay in the delivery of the files to the DME MACs did not affect the date of receipt on the claims submitted and will not affect the payment floor of these claims.

Note: DME MAC Suppliers may receive duplicate claim denials on some of the electronic claims submitted to CEDI from October 6 through October 13, 2008. If CEDI was in the process of re-batching claims to deliver to the DME MACs and the re-batch did not complete properly, all claims were re-batched and delivered again. This would cause some claims to be delivered to a DME MAC twice and suppliers would see duplicate claims denials. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Most of the additional front end edits added to CEDI on October 6 have been turned off. The DME MACs will continue to perform their Level II edits and these will continue to be returned on the “RPT” report delivered by CEDI to the Trading Partners.

Please note the following edits are still in place at CEDI on the GenResponse (GENRPT) report:

Post Date 10/16/08