Project Brief Description: 
Identify and remediate/enhance IT systems to ensure compliance with both published standards and planned rules. Ensure compliance to operating rules and standards and result in improved functionality, improved timeliness, and simplification of user processes. 
 
Benefit to Installation: 
Ensure compliance to operating rules and standards and result in improved functionality, improved timeliness, and simplification of user processes.  

Justification for Work: 
Failure to certify and comply with the new standards and operating rules would result in substantial civil and monetary penalties. In addition to the potential for billions of dollars assessed in penalties for non-compliance, not implementing EDI New Standards and Operating Rules according to the timeline set will result in the inability for VHA to exchange data with insurance payers according to the standards for data exchange, thereby resulting in a loss of revenue. Furthermore, the inability to exchange data according to the standards will result in a loss of business efficiency and ultimately a considerable failure to serve the Veteran population.  

This submission includes the following patches bundled as BPS_IB_PRCA_EPAYMENTS_BUNDLE_T21.KID: 

IB*2.0*517
PRCA*4.5*298
IB*2.0*511