DME MAC Electronic Trading Partners Must Transition to CEDI Soon

All DME MAC electronic Trading Partners (submitters) must begin sending to the new National Government Services Common Electronic Data Interchange (CEDI) front end. Jurisdiction A and D must be transitioned by May 1, 2008 and Jurisdiction B and C must be transitioned by June 1, 2008.  CEDI and the DME MACs strongly encourage all electronic Trading Partners to transition to CEDI prior to the cutover dates listed above.  To become a CEDI production submitter, you must:

1. Make sure your software vendor has completed testing with CEDI.  A list of approved CEDI vendors can be found by clicking on the following link:  http://www.ngscedi.com/outreach_materials/Approved_CEDI_Vendor.pdf
2. Obtain the necessary software and/or communications changes from your vendor to interact with the CEDI system.
3. Contact your vendor to determine the date when you can begin exchanging files with CEDI.

NOTE:  CEDI will continue to update the CEDI approved vendor list.  To view this list, click on or paste the following into your Internet browser:  http://www.ngscedi.com/outreach_materials/Approved_CEDI_Vendor.pdf .  The list can also be accessed by going to www.ngscedi.com. Click on Outreach Materials and then click on Approved Vendor List. 

CEDI Production Submitters

National Government Services’ CEDI and the DME MACs EDI departments are coordinating to ensure that electronic submitters successfully submitting electronic claims to the CEDI are no longer submitting electronic claims to other DME MACs EDI front end systems.  National Government Services CEDI is providing daily lists of CEDI production submitters to the DME MAC EDI departments. The DME MAC EDI departments are then terminating those Submitter IDs. This means that once a Trading Partner (submitter) is approved to submit production claims to CEDI, they will no longer be authorized to submit DME claims to any of the DME MACs.

Trading Partners (submitters) who have submitted production claims to CEDI must submit any additional EDI materials and requests to CEDI for processing. The DME MAC EDI departments will not process EDI materials for Trading Partners (submitters) who are in production with CEDI.

Trading Partners using a vendor who has been approved for production with CEDI should submit EDI enrollment materials ONLY to CEDI for processing. The DME MAC EDI departments may not process administrative requests for a vendor’s customers once the vendor has been approved to submit production claims to the CEDI. 

EDI products and services handled by CEDI include:

• Electronic submission of all DME MAC claims;
• Changes to EDI trading partner (submitter) information, including passwords
• Delivery of all electronic front end reports;
• Electronic Remittance Advice enrollment, changes to enrollment and delivery of ERA files; and
• 276/277 transactions enrollment, changes to enrollment and collection and delivery of 276/277 files.

Note :  CEDI will not process Claim Status Inquiry ( CSI) or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) applications.  CSI and EFT will continue to be handled by the appropriate DME MAC Jurisdictions.  CSI and EFT functions will not transition to CEDI. 

Post Date 03/20/08