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CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 24, § 50.3.5
Handling of Poorly Formed/Invalid Flat Files for a 277CA
When a poorly formed/corrupted invalid flat file for an ASC X12 277CA claim
acknowledgment outbound transaction is received, the contractor may manually correct
the flat file acknowledgment data necessary to produce a valid ASC X12 277CA claim
acknowledgment. The manually corrected information is then to be submitted to the
translator. This process shall be executed on an exception basis to ensure that an ASC
X12 277CA claim acknowledgment can be produced for an accepted transaction.
History
(Rev. 2803, Issued: 10-28-13, Effective: 09-17-13, Implementation: 09-17-13)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
ba83198d81e11a3ef9cd0d471e11ee821fa654966aa9c0ae258b9227fc8c6059
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