Improve Claim Tracking

A minor update with the following changes:

• Added support for .DAT files
• Added tracking of claim ICNs
• Added tracking of "claim forwarding" wherein payers state if the claim was forwarded to another payer (e.g. a secondary or tertiary).

Add Claim Status Parsing

Added the ability to parse claim status codes. Doing this allowed for the addition of a payer_classification column to the output of transaction_sets.to_dataframe method. The payer_classification column explicitly states if the given transaction, at the service level, is from a primary payer, secondary payer, or tertiary payer. In the case of denials the payer_classification is given as unspecified, if the claim status code went unparsed, the payer_classification is given as unknown.

Improve Parsing Reliability

This release includes a few extra parsing checks. This parser now accepts .835 files and correctly parses the < delimiter. Tests were added to ensure correct delimiter identification. A payee property was also added to the transaction set for easier payee identification.

Behind the scenes, this update also includes continuous integration testing for any commit pushed to source code on GitHub for increased stability.

Service Allowed Amount Enhancements

This release contains a fix to a bug in the amount segment attribute of the claim loop and added service allowed amounts (where available) to the to_dataframe method for better accounting.

More Accurate Parsing

This update includes a lot of small updates to the parser to make it more succinct and accurate. Changes include teasing out allowed unit values from billed unit values, generalization of claim indices to include strings, the inclusion of more service segment values, standardization of adjustments, remarks, and references and better code, description modeling.

Added a special acknowledgment to the README.

Better Adjustment, Remark and Reference Tracking

Fixed some assumptions that were being made about the adjustments, remarks, and references attached to the individual services within each claim. Dataframe functionality extended to display every adjustment, remark and reference of each service.

Compatibility Increases

Added more qualifier codes, increased payer compatibility, and added more functionality to the to_dataframe method.

Initial Release

This is the initial release.