277 Health Care Information Status Notification (X212)
CGS Medicare · X12 005010X212
CGS Medicare’s published 277 specification, rendered as an interactive guide. Expand any segment to see its elements, data types, lengths and accepted codes — then validate your own document against it below.
Specification
3 of 3 segments
HEADING
ST
Transaction Set Header
pos 0100
Optional
max —
BHT
Beginning of Hierarchical Transaction
pos 0200
Required
max —
DETAIL
SE
Transaction Set Trailer
pos 2700
Optional
max —
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