Carrier Type Maintenance

Use Carrier Type Maintenance to maintain carrier information used during electronic communications processes such as, electronic billing.  The Carrier Type includes the form types and flags to indicate the programs used during the communications processes.

Tips:  

• Generally, the carrier types are maintained during the electronic billing installation and do not change unless the carrier makes changes to their process or governmental agencies make changes to their electronic billing regulations.  For more information, contact NDS Technical Support.

• For more information about working with data in fields, see the Data Entry Guidelines.

Directions:

To see directions for...

• Opening Carrier Type Maintenance, click More.

   

  1.  Click Billing Functions from the Menu Bar.

  2.  Click Communications.

  3.  Click File Maintenance.

  4.  Click Carrier Types.

   

  • Advanced Methods:
    
    Click the following sequence:
    Billing Functions from the Menu Bar; Menu Panel; File Maintenance on the Menu Bar; and Carrier Types.

   

  Carrier Type Maintenance Window Example:

  

   

• Creating a New Carrier Type, click More.

   

  To create a new record choose one of these methods:

  • Enter the new Carrier Type and click Retrieve , or press [ENTER].
    Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + t]

  • Or, enter the new Carrier Type and click File from the Menu Bar; next click New.
    Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [f] [n]

  Tip:  To indicate that you are building a new Carrier Type, New  displays near the Carrier Type.  Default entries display and the first field is highlighted to let you know you can begin entering information.

   

  Carrier Type Maintenance Prompts Tip:  To see more information about a field, click the hyperlink for the field name.
  Carrier Type	Enter the Carrier Type. (up to 10 characters) Notes:   NDS specifies the Carrier Type. The Carrier Type is required in the electronic billing scripts.
  	To update the new or changed information, click Save or press [ENTER]. Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + s]
  	CAUTION To avoid losing data, you must save new or changed records.
  	To view all of the existing Carrier Types, click Search.  From the Search list you can select the record to change or delete. Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + r]
  	To display an existing Carrier Type, enter the Carrier Type and click Retrieve, or press [ENTER]. Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + t]
  Description	Enter the Description for the carrier type. (up to 20 characters)
  Carrier Parameters	Enter the Form Types to use to bill the carrier.  For example, if you maintain 179 as the Carrier Parameters that means the carrier uses Form Types 1, 7 and 9. (4.0 numeric)
  Billing Parameters/Programs
  Datafile Name	Enter the Datafile Name for the electronic billing Setup Table Name for the insurance carrier. (up to 8 characters) Notes:   The Datafile Name specifies the carrier setup information for electronic billing. The Datafile Name must be unique to each individual carrier.
  EMC Table ID	Enter the defined EMC Table ID for the carrier. (up to 9 characters) Notes:   The EMC Table ID must match the EMC Table ID for the carrier, which is assigned during Insurance Maintenance or Insurance Set Maintenance. The EMC ID is maintained during Classic EMC Table Maintenance or EMC Professional Table Maintenance.
  Record Separator	To specify if a record separator should be included in the file, click a choice in the drop-down list.
  Setup Lib/Prog	To specify how the electronic billing Setup routine gathers information for this carrier, enter the Setup Library Name and enter the Setup Program Number. (Lib = up to 8 characters, Prog = 3.0 numeric)
  Jrnl Lib/Prog	To specify the type of electronic billing print journal to print, enter the Journal library Name and enter the Journal Program Number. (Lib = up to 8 characters, Prog = 3.0 numeric)
  Trns Lib/Prog	To specify the transfer flag for the Transfer routine, enter the Transmission Library name and enter the Transmission Program number. (Lib = up to 8 characters, Prog = 3.0 numeric)
  Referrals Parameters/Programs Note:   The following fields pertain to processing insurance referrals electronically.
  Datafile Name	Enter the Datafile Name for the referrals parameters. (up to 8 characters)
  EMC Table ID	Enter the defined EMC Table ID for the carrier. (up to 9 characters) Notes:   The EMC Table ID must match the EMC Table ID for the carrier, which is assigned during Insurance Maintenance or Insurance Set Maintenance. The EMC ID is maintained during Classic EMC Table Maintenance or EMC Professional Table Maintenance.
  Record Separator	To specify if a record separator should be included in the file, click a choice in the drop-down list.
  Setup Lib/Prog	To specify how the electronic billing Setup routine gathers information for this carrier, enter the Setup Library Name and enter the Setup Program Number. (Lib = up to 8 characters, Prog = 3.0 numeric)
  Jrnl Lib/Prog	To specify the type of electronic billing journal to print for the carrier, enter the Journal library Name and enter the Journal Program Number. (Lib = up to 8 characters, Prog = 3.0 numeric)
  Trns Lib/Prog	To specify the transmission process for the electronic billing Transfer routine, enter the Transmission Library name and enter the Transmission Program number. (Lib = up to 8 characters, Prog = 3.0 numeric)

   

• Editing an Existing Carrier Type, click More.

   

  CAUTION:  To avoid losing data, you must save new or changed records.

  1.  To display the record to be changed, enter the Carrier Type and click Retrieve , or press [ENTER].
  Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + t]
  
  Tip:  If you do not know the Carrier Type, you can click Search  to see a list of Carrier Types.

  2.  To position the pointer to the information that you want to change, press [TAB] or click the field using the mouse.

  3.  Enter the data changes.

  4.  To complete the edit process, click Save , or press [ENTER].
  Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + s]

   

• Deleting an Existing Carrier Type, click More.

   

  1.  To display the record to be deleted, enter the Carrier Type and click Retrieve , or press [ENTER].
  Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT + t]
  Tip:  If you do not know the Carrier Type, you can click Search  to see a list of Carrier Types.

  2.  Click File from the Menu Bar, and next click Delete.
  Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [f] [d]

  3.  At the Delete Records prompt, click Proceed to delete the record, or click Cancel to escape from the delete routine.

  Example:

  

   

  Note:  After you click Proceed, you will see the following message on the Status Bar.