New claim edit: Invalid future dates

Stedi now rejects 837P professional, 837D dental, and 837I institutional claims that contain dates later than the claim’s transaction date.

How the edit works

Each claim includes a transaction date – the date the claim was submitted.

Providers always submit claims after care is provided. That means other dates in the claim, such as dates of service, statement periods, and accident dates, should always occur on or before the transaction date. Future dates indicate a data entry error.

If a claim contains a future date, the payer may reject the claim, which can delay payment for the provider.

This edit – the industry term for an automated validation rule – catches the issue before the claim reaches the payer.

Dates covered by this edit

This edit validates date fields at the claim and service line level, including but not limited to:

• Dates of service

• Accident dates

• Initial treatment dates

• Prescription dates

• Last seen dates

• Discharge dates

This edit does not apply to dates of birth. Stedi validates those separately with the invalid date of birth edit.

Rejection errors

If you submit a claim using Stedi's Claim Submission API endpoints and the claim fails the edit, you'll get back an error response in real time. The response includes details in the errors array:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "33",
      "description": "The submitted date(s) are invalid. The following dates cannot be later than the transaction date of 20260312: Service (20270101). Correct and resubmit.",
      "followupAction": "Please Correct and Resubmit"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "33",
      "description": "The submitted date(s) are invalid. The following dates cannot be later than the transaction date of 20260312: Service (20270101). Correct and resubmit.",
      "followupAction": "Please Correct and Resubmit"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "33",
      "description": "The submitted date(s) are invalid. The following dates cannot be later than the transaction date of 20260312: Service (20270101). Correct and resubmit.",
      "followupAction": "Please Correct and Resubmit"
    }
  ]
}

If you submit a claim using SFTP and the claim fails the edit, Stedi will reject the claim with a 277CA claim acknowledgment. The acknowledgment will include a related claim status category code, claim status code, and error message:

STC*A8>510*[DATE]*U*[AMOUNT]******A7>727**The submitted date(s) are invalid. The following dates cannot be later than the transaction date of 20260312: Service (20270101). Correct and resubmit

STC*A8>510*[DATE]*U*[AMOUNT]******A7>727**The submitted date(s) are invalid. The following dates cannot be later than the transaction date of 20260312: Service (20270101). Correct and resubmit

STC*A8>510*[DATE]*U*[AMOUNT]******A7>727**The submitted date(s) are invalid. The following dates cannot be later than the transaction date of 20260312: Service (20270101). Correct and resubmit