Medicare rejects via Availity

tmccormi wrote on Thursday, May 28, 2009:

I get this message from Texas Medicare Part B regarding the format of the SSN (I chg’d the actual number).  If Medicare won’t take the dashes, then shouldn’t we strip them in the X12 formatter?
Or am I missing something here?
–Tony

Message Type:           R                               Message Code:        MSG-V19                    
Message Loop:                                           Message Segment:     NM1                        
Message Element:        09                             
Message Text:           Subscriber ID = INV format >111-11-1111 - HL=2