Notice of Updates to the Data in BCDA V1 and V2

[Beneficiary Claims Data API (BCDA) Community]

Hello BCDA Community,

The BCDA Team would like to share the following updates:

(1) As of Thursday, October 27, 2022, a fix was released for a minor bug in BCDA Version 1 (V1) and Version 2 (V2) that removed duplicative careTeam objects.

• The data is updated in all BCDA requests as of the October 27, 2022 release date. BCDA customers should assess if these duplicate careTeam entries have caused issues in their system. If so, we encourage customers to perform a complete update (instead of an incremental update using the _since parameter) to ensure all of the historical data is updated with this modification.

(2) As an advance notice, the Organization Name will be added to the contained organization resource in BCDA V2 only. Adding the Organization Name will support BCDA's compliance with the guidelines within the CARIN for Blue Button Implementation Guide (IG). We will provide notice when this has been deployed.

• The data will be updated in all BCDA requests as of the deployment date, which we will confirm through an update to this post. If you want all historical data to be updated with this Organization Name, we encourage customers to perform a complete update (instead of an incremental update using the _since parameter).
• The Organization Name will appear as an attribute in the contained organization resources as contained in the NPI coded display file. The Organization Name will be populated with "Unknown" as a value if it was not submitted on the claim.

Below is a code snippet that highlights the change related to the Organization Name:

"contained" : [ {

 "resourceType" : "Organization",

 "id" : ....

 "meta" : {

   ....

 },

 "identifier" : [ {

   ....

 } ],

 "name" : "Sample Organization Name"

 .....

} ]

Thank you for your continued support of the API!

The BCDA Team

[Beneficiary Claims Data API (BCDA) Community]

Hello BCDA Community,

As of Tuesday, November 8, 2022, the Organization Name was successfully added to the contained organization resource in BCDA V2.

The data is updated in all BCDA requests as of the aforementioned release date. If you or your organization want all historical data to be updated with this Organization Name, we encourage customers to perform a complete update instead of an incremental update using the _since parameter.

Please reach out if you have any questions by replying to this message in the BCDA Google Group.

The BCDA Team