Chris,

A few thoughts here:

• This is exactly the type of detailed feedback we need informing HR standards. Unfortunately, I no longer am working for HR-XML, so this is best communicated to them.
• Your use case does make me wonder about whether RaceCode and EthnicityCode ought to be repeatable where they are used. Both of these rely on an HR-XML extension of "CodeType," which is a harmonized core component. I think this handles your situation very well. Consider the following:
  

        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Group" name="Asian">R2</EthnicityCode>
        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Subclass" name="Laotian">2041-2"</EthnicityCode>
  

  or alternatively:

        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Group">R2</EthnicityCode>
        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Subclass">2041-2"</EthnicityCode>
  

You could do the above by making EthnicityCode repeatable (it isn't currently). Another way to go would be to add an explicit element for such sub-classifications.

I'm sure you know as well as I that HR-XML's library doesn't currently cover an Health Care Claim Payment/Advice (835). I haven't kept up with ANSI X12N, but I'm guessing they have not yet taken up an XML representation of the 835?

BTW - if you don't mind, I'd like to post a version of this in the HRInterop forum. I'll remove your name/company affiliation.

Chuck

Chris wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Thank you for replying so quickly. I was able to find the 3.0 draft on
> the HR-XML site, and was able to locate the Ethnicity and Race codes on
> the list of Global Elements.
>
> Although it's probably taboo to discuss other file formats with you, I
> thought I'd provide a little background on the reason for my inquiry.
>
> The HIPAA 835 (version 5010) changes are really just more specifically