EDI Segment: A Structural Item of The Electronic Transaction EDI Segment is a structural part of any EDI message and is represented as a group of related data elements. Being an intermediate information unit, EDI segment usually contains one or more data elements. Segment starts with a three-character data identifier and ends with a segment … Read More →
Area Transaction Set (Electronic Data Interchange) Definition Area Transaction Set in Electronic Data Interchange means a predefined area within a transaction set (header, detail or summary) that contains segments and their attributes. As we know, a transaction can be divided into four information sections – envelope, header, detail, and summary. For EDI document transmission special segments … Read More →
EDI X12 Message Typical Structure in Brief In the previous posts in our blog we have already written about EDI X12 standard in general. Today we will try to explain typical structure of the EDI X12 message and we take 837 Healthcare Claim (HIPAA) release version 4010 document as an example. General notes about EDI X12 file … Read More →
997 FA Segments description The description of 997 FA segments continues our previous post where we spoke about 997 FA basic definition and recoinciliation. Below you will find the main 997 FA segments, their description and purpose. AK1: This 997 FA segment refers to the (GS) group level of the original document. AK101 is equal to … Read More →