With Federal Mandated HIPAA compliancy, there have been many hurdles which the SUNY Upstate Medical University needed to cross to become compliant, including migrating their existing Practice Management system. With exception to only a few Insurance Carriers, most of them were receiving the HIPAA-compliant ANSI X12 837 claim format. Extensive research showed there were no vendors out there that supported this format and the targeted carrier in question for 278 batch submission. There were plenty of interactive websites vis-a-vis WebMD for performing 'Real-time' (one-by-one) transactions - but not batch. Thus, the university decided to write an 'In-House' application and effectively became 'The software vendor'. Fortunately, Perl came to the rescue.
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