How to get incremental EOB from BB 2.0

[Ashish Narnoli]

Hello,

I am integrating BB 2.0 with my application and the goal is to pull EOB from BB and store in Google Healthcare FHIRStore for further internal workflow.

My question is: Is there anyway through which BB API can return incremental data? 

For example: If I hit BB API to pull EOB on 1st Mar then it should return all stored EOB. Now if I hit BB API on 10th Mar then it should return only the new EOB between 1st Mar and 10th Mar.

Appreciate help!

[Kirsten Hansen]

Hi Ashish,

Yes, you can get incremental data for the EOB.  If you query by the “lastUpdated” field, you should be able to get the data the way you are asking.  For more information, go to this section of our developer documentation: https://bluebutton.cms.gov/developers/#query-by-lastupdated-field

Let us know if we can be of any more help.

Kirsten Hansen

Product Manager

The Blue Button 2.0 API Team

[Ashish Narnoli]

That's wonderful Kirsten.

I see https://www.npmjs.com/package/cms-bluebutton-sdk package through which I am able to pull EOB data by calling getExplanationOfBenefitData() but I am in trouble to run query.

Is there any way to run query using sdk or any help document available?

Thanks

[Kirsten Hansen]

Hi Ashish,

The python sample client should be able to help.  You can get more information on how to use it here: https://github.com/CMSgov/bluebutton-sample-client-python-react

Kirsten Hansen

Product Manager

The Blue Button 2.0 API Team

[Ashish Narnoli]

Hi Kirsten,

Thanks for the detail. 

Using "cms-bluebutton-sdk" node package I am trying to use config like below to search EOB where 'lastUpdated' is greater than some date but every-time it returns the same result.

Can you please help to identify what I am doing wrong here?

const config = {

params: {

lastUpdated: "gt2023-06-30T00:00:00.000",

},

};

const eobResults = await bb.getExplanationOfBenefitData(authToken, config);

Thanks

[Jillian Theil]

Hello Ashish -

One thing you can try is to change, per this resource:

lastUpdated:
to
_lastUpdated

Best,

Jillian Theil -The Blue Button 2.0 API Team

[Ashish Narnoli]

Hi Team,

It worked for me, Thanks so much.