If you are a TRICARE network provider you must file all your claims electronically. By filing your claims electronically you’ll receive your money much faster than if you filed them on paper.

• Correctly populating your electronic claim with your service address (as opposed to your “pay to” address) will eliminate
  possible payment delays.
   
• You are required to use your NPI as your identifier on all electronic claims. Although TRICARE, like the majority of other payers, will not deny claims for failure to include the provider’s NPI on the HIPAA-standard electronic transaction immediately, providers are encouraged to use their NPIs as their primary provider identifier as soon as possible.
   
• For help filing your claims electronically, refer to PGBA, LLC’s XPressClaimSM service. XPressClaim is HIPAA-compliant, it’s free, payment results are returned instantly and you can use XPressClaim to file your claims where TRICARE is the secondary payer.

  
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Created: September 6, 2007