EDI Viewer and EDI Converter Blog

January 6, 2025

EDI Converter Release 2.10.5

We’ve updated all our converter products, including EDI API, CLI converter and EDI parser for Java.

This release adds several new fields to the CSV and JSON output and includes two important bug fixes.

January 2, 2025

EDI Viewer/Claim Insight Changes - Release 01/2025

We’ve rolled out several changes to our free EDI Viewer and to our Claim Insight product (the paid counterpart of the fre EDI Viewer).

Changes to the CSV Export Format

We’ve added several new columns, mostly related to 835s for institutional claims.

You can see the full list of new columns here.

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December 25, 2024

New CSV Columns: DRG, Revenue Code and Drug Code

We’ve added DRG code and several other new fields to our CSV file layout for 835.

The changes affect CSV files produced by our converter tools (EDI API, CLI converter) and our EDI Viewer product.

These changes are part of the release 2.10.5 of the API and the CLI.

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December 9, 2024

Release 2.10 of EDI Converter

We’re pleased to announce the release 2.10.4 of our EDI conversion and parsing tools.

The following are the key new features of this version:

Full support for streaming when processing large EDI files. The streaming mode allows you to convert files of unlimited size.
Single stateless container without database dependency
Docker-less installation is also fully supported
Only two API endpoints, one for JSON conversion and one for CSV conversion
Improved flexibility when converting to CSV. You can use one of the predefined conversion schemas or create your own. You can configure what fields to include or exclude and how to convert repeating segments.

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December 2, 2024

Changes to the CSV Output Format

We’ve implemented several changes to the CSV output produced by the EDI API and the CLI converter as well as our EDI Viewer product.

The purpose of the changes is to make column names more intuitive and to add several missing and derived fields. The derived fields are calculated based on the values in other columns.

These changes are part of the release 2.10.4 of the API and the CLI.

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November 17, 2024

EDI API Server Getting Started Guide

You can run our EDI conversion and parsing API server locally on your laptop or server using Docker or Java. The server does not connect to any external services. You will need a license key to run it.

The API documentation is available here.

See this post for a quick intro to our JSON schema/response format.

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October 14, 2024

277CA and 277 Examples

We’ve added several interactive examples of 277 transactions to our collection of EDI examples.

277CA (claim acknowledgment) transactions are sent in response to 837 transactions.

They contain processing statuses and failed edits applied by the payer.

277 response can also be initiated separately by sending a 276 status request.

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October 6, 2024

Key Features and Benefits of Our EDI Converters

We offer two modes for converting EDI files: API (our API back-end can be installed locally as a Docker container) and the command-line tool. Both options produce the same output (except for code descriptions); it is up to you to decide which one you want to employ.

We also offer a Java parser that can be embedded directly into any Java application.

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April 23, 2024

Converting X12 EDI 835 and 837 to CSV

You can now convert X12 EDI 835 (ERA) and 837 (claim) transactions to the comma-separated values (CSV) format using our EDI conversion API or the CLI tool.

You can also use our UI, all you need to do is to upload your EDI files, navigate to “Payments” and click on “Download CSV.”

The API is easy to use. You “post” EDI as text (or upload EDI files; see below) and get a “flattened” CSV representation of your 835/837 back.

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