Effective: October 11, 2016
Effective October 11, 2016, Argus will begin rejecting claims for the following two reasons:
1. Argus will reject transactions submitted with a decimal in the Diagnosis Code (NCPDP field 434-DO). NCPDP Reject Code 39 (Missing/Invalid Diagnosis Code) will be returned when decimals are submitted in any occurrence of the Diagnosis Code. Pharmacies should remove the decimals and resubmit the claim.
The free-form message "FLD DO DIAGNOSIS CODE WITH DECIMAL WILL CAUSE CLAIM REJECTION EFFECTIVE 10/11/16" is currently being returned when a decimal is submitted in the diagnosis code fields in preparation for the hard rejection.
2. Argus will reject transactions containing lowercase letters in an alphanumeric field. NCPDP Reject Code 614 (Upper Case Required) will be returned when lowercase characters are submitted in fields defined as alphanumeric. Pharmacies should change data to uppercase and resubmit the claim.
Note: The Patient Email Address (NCPDP field 350-HN) is exempt from the lowercase edit and emails may continue to be submitted in mixed case characters. Argus has submitted a request to NCPDP to have the character designation for email fields redefined to allow mixed case alpha characters.