Handling of Poorly Formed/Invalid Flat Files for a 277CA

50.3.5 - Handling of Poorly Formed/Invalid Flat Files for a 277CA (Rev. 2803, Issued: 10-28-13, Effective: 09-17-13, Implementation: 09-17-13) When a poorly formed/corrupted invalid flat file for an ASC X12 277CA claim acknowledgment outbound transaction is received, the contractor may manually correct the flat file acknowledgment data necessary to produce a valid ASC X12 277CA claim acknowledgment. The manually corrected information is then to be submitted to the translator. This process shall be executed on an exception basis to ensure that an ASC X12 277CA claim acknowledgment can be produced for an accepted transaction.