NCPDP REFERENCE MANUAL - CMS

Rev. 2005-4/October 3-1 2002 VIPS, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use or disclosure of the information contained on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this material. Chapter 3: NCPDP Flat File Format About the Flat File Format (FFF) File Layout The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires that a single standard be used for the electronic submission of retail pharmacy claims NCPDP format. These incoming claims are first passed through an NCPDP translator and stored in a Flat-File-Format (FFF). ViPS programs pass the FFF data through a series of editing programs and produce reports that list the claims included in the transmission and identify any errors in the submitted data.

NCPDP Telecommunications Standard Implementation Guide, Version 5.1. Batch Trailer Record The batch trailer record is the last record on the NCPDP file. It occurs only once. Field definitions begin on page 3-953-93. For additional information about the batch trailer record, refer to the NCPDP Batch Standard Implementation Guide, Version 1.1.

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