Following are the Step-by-Step instructions you will use every time you bill if you decided to use this HIPAA compliant form for any Payer.

1. Determine which Payers you are going to bill electronically.
2. Contact each Payer and get the following information:
   2.1) Trading Partner Agreement about Electronic Date Interchange which you have to review and sign.
   2.2) Get necessary data such as a Business EDI ID, Mailbox, etc.
   2.3) Find out about the communication protocol used by Payer for exchanging the EDI transactions and get documentation.
3. Setup communication software. You can use TPS communicator or a 3rd party software.
4. Test communication software: make sure that you can send/receive files.
5. Enter received information #2.2 into TPS 2000.
6. Generate bills for the Payer (Carrier) #1.
7. Export bills in TPS 2000 into 837 Professional Claim file and send it.
8. Receive 997 Functional Acknowledgment file in communication software and import it into TPS2000.
9. If all bills were rejected make changes to fix the errors. If you have any problems make contact with Payer EDI department (you can find contact information in your agreement #2.1 or communication protocol document #2.3 or other source) or EON support.