The address file is divided into sections: Correspondence, Health Funds, Invoicing/Reports, Sub-Contractor, Third Party Schedules, Contact Categories as the information required for each is different. A distinction has been made between Third parties who are billed (invoiced) on an individual patient basis (ACC for Medical Reports/Operations and Solicitors) and Third Party Schedules where one schedule contains many entries for different patients.
NOTE: Third Party Schedules are different from Claims such as ACC and Maternity Payments which are in a set format.
There are a range of different file formats that can be used to import Contacts into the database.
The most commonly used are either Healthlink EDI account lists or Contacts from another specialist using an Incisive application.
See SpmConfig > Data Import for details on the import process.