The Saga Continues
Lambert at Corrente covers a significant problem with the web site: some of the 834 forms that are sent to insurance companies for enrollment in plans are corrupted.
The format for the 834 form was specified by the HIPAA law passed in the mid-1990s. They are one of the few things that really are an industry-wide standard. If this web site can’t consistently produce useable 834s, it is worthless.
What the form amounts to is a text file which contains all of the information that the insurance company needs to issue you a policy. If the file is corrupted and their software can’t read the data or the codes identifying the data, you don’t get insurance and have wasted your time on the web site.
This part of the process should have been an exercise in loading existing code on the server. All of the specifications are known. The only things missing were the web addresses for the insurance companies.
This sounds like a problem with verifying the data that is received to ensure it is ASCII text, and that is a front end problem. The other possibility is database corruption, but a problem with input is more likely.
October 25, 2013 2 Comments
Friday Cat Blogging
Weasel ‘Rabbits’
Zzz…Brrr…Zzz
[Editor: The weather is cool, and Weasel came out in the front yard hoping for sun. He assumed the ‘rabbit’ pose to conserve body heat.]
October 25, 2013 3 Comments
