Companion guide
Information regarding Type 7 validation requirements are included in companion guides.
The term companion guide refers to documents and related materials that are used in addition to
the standard HIPAA Implementation Guides. The companion guide facilitates the electronic exchange of
HIPAA data between specific Business Partners. A number of healthcare organizations base their HIPAA
X12 companion guides on the CORE v5010 Master Companion Guide Template. This template is available
from the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH). When this template is used, much of the
information that is required to implement Type 7 validation for HIPAA X12 data can be found in these
two sections of the companion guide:
- Information from Section 6 Control Segments/Envelopes is incorporated into SPE envelope definitions.
- Requirements from Section 10, Transaction Specific Information, are the basis for Type 7 business rules.