HMSA EDI Center Transmission Procedures

HMSA EDI Center File Transfer Procedures

HMSA EDI Center reserves the right to exercise prior approval of EDI submission arrangements from any source. It will be necessary for HMSA to review and approve each provider and for each approved provider to sign an Electronic Trading Partner Agreement.

HMSA EDI Center File Transfer Steps (Sending a file to the HMSA Center)

1. Make sure to use the HIPAA X12 formats when transmitting to the HMSA EDI Center. Check the EDI Trading Partner Manual or the Provider Section of HMSA’s website (hmsa.com) on the Internet if you are not sure.
2. The file may be compressed using the gzip file compressor.
3. For secure FTP/HTTP connection to the HMSA EDI Center:
   1. Use an FTP/HTTP program with the capability to support standard binary file transfers. Most of the popular PC-based HTTP browsers work well (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox) or FTP programs (e.g., CuteFTP Pro, WS FTP Pro, lfpt, cURL, FileZilla, IglooFTP, SmartFTP), or Secure Shell (SSH) programs that also allow for binary file transfers (e.g., Absolute Telnet, OpenSSH, VanDyke SecureFX, PuTTY, SCP/SFTP, WinSCP). You may also want to use one that will allow you to script a procedure to automate and simplify the upload and download process.
   2. Please contact your HMSA EDI representative to discuss other FTP clients or to obtain HMSA’s secure FTP site for test and production file transmissions. The HMSA EDI Center server uses Tumbleweed SecureTransport which supports standard binary file transfers.

HMSA EDI Center File Transfer Steps (Receiving a file from  the HMSA Center)

If the file name has an extension of “gz” or the extension ends with the letter “z,” the file is compressed. Use the gzip program to restore a compressed file to its original form. You can also use WinZip to decompress the file if you are using Windows.