This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Set Cancellation Transaction Set (998) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to request the deletion of a previously transmitted transaction set and will indicate the reason for this action, such as diversion or cancelled bill.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
This segment is used to specify the transaction set to be canceled
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments)
