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WEDI provides a full suite of resources designed to help organizations better understand and manage health IT.  The Resources section provides access to WEDI’s various tools and library of health IT information.

We strive to make the approval process of our work products as transparent as possible. White papers, issue briefs and surveys must be approved by the Peer Review Committee. Workgroup charters, new workgroups and co-chairs must be approved by the Work Group Leadership Committee. Comment letters and WEDI policies must be approved by the Policy Committee.

Resources

NDC Reporting Requirements in Health Care Claims

October 28, 2014

Knowledge Center The purpose of this white paper is to provide additional information on how to report National Drug Codes (NDC) and its related information in health care claims when it is known to impact adjudication.

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What is the Difference Between a Health Plan and a Payer?

July 24, 2014

Knowledge Center The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has conducted ongoing conversations with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) and through those discussions, identified that there are differences in verbiage usage between the terms “health plan” and “payer”. By and large, the healthcare industry tends to use the terms “health plan” and “payer”…

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The 2013 WEDI Report

October 15, 2013

Knowledge Center The WEDI Report was published in 1993 and provided a vision for the industry to successfully transition to electronic data interchange standards as a way to bring cost-efficiencies to burdensome administrative processes.  The report led directly to the administrative simplification provisions in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which…

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Health Identification Card Implementation Guide

April 28, 2011

Knowledge Center This implementation guide specifies WEDI Health Identification Card Implementation of the American National Standard, Identification Cards—Health Care Identification Cards, INCITS 284 as revised. INCITS is accredited by ANSI. This Guide specifies uniform information, appearance, and technology.

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Transaction Compliance and Certification

March 10, 2010

Knowledge Center A White Paper describing the recommended solutions for compliance testing and certification of the HIPAA transactions.

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