BCBSKS 834 Health Care Benefit Enrollments and Maintenance Editing

Editing is performed to ensure requirements are met for complete and valid information. Editing reduces processing delays by these types of errors.

BCBSKS returns the ANSI X12 834 Industry Standard Acknowledgment 999, for each successful submission. The 999 reflects if the ANSI X12 834 transaction was accepted, rejected or accepted with warnings.

BCBSKS provides a Proprietary 834 Acknowledgment (ACK). The ACK is only available if the file rejects or was accepted with warnings.

All acknowledgments must be reviewed after each submission confirming the file was accepted for processing.

Warnings should be corrected with the next file submission.
Rejections will need to be corrected and the file resubmitted.

List of edits:

2000 INS01 - Missing Subscriber Indicator
2000 INS02 - Missing Relationship Code
2000 INS02 - Invalid Relationship Code
2000 INS03 - Missing Maintenance Type Code
2000 INS03 - Invalid Maintenance Type Code
All DTP segments - Invalid Date Format – Ex: 02/31/2017 or Ex: 99/99/9999
2100A DMG02 - Missing DOB IF DMG segment is present
2100A DMG03 - Missing Gender IF DMG segment is present
2100A NM109 - Missing SSN IF NM108=34
2000 REF*0F - Missing Subscriber Identifier Missing entire segment and/or missing REF02 only
2300 HD03 - Missing Insurance Line Code IF HD segment is present
2300 HD03 - Invalid Insurance Line Code IF HD segment is present
2300 HD05 - Invalid Coverage Line Code IF HD segment is present and HD05 is invalid
Header REF*38 - Missing/Invalid MPN
2300 HD04 - Missing/Invalid Plan Coverage Description
2300 HD05 - Missing Coverage Level Code
2100A NM109 - Invalid SSN IF NM108=34 Default values of 0's,1's,2's,3's,4's,5's,6's,7's,8's,9's or invalid value such as 123456789