H I P A A lert
Volume 7, Number 6 –
July 27, 2006
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*** CMS to End HIPAA Contingency Plan for Remittance Advice ***
A year after ending its contingency plan for HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets (TCS) non-compliant inbound claims (transaction 837), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will terminate its contingency plan for non-compliant electronic remittance advice (transaction 835). After October 1, all electronic transactions must be in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X12 format to be considered HIPAA-compliant. CMS announced the end to the contingency plan for remittance advice in a June 29 MLN Matters article (SE0646).
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*** EMR Products Get Government Approval & Mixed Reaction ***
The first electronic medical records (EMR) products to win government approval were announced last week, a step toward encouraging doctors to switch from paper systems. The non-profit Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) certified 20 EMR products. Reaction to the first certifications of EMR software varies, however, among consultants specializing in helping clients pick an IT vendor.
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*** Federal ID Mandate Tests Health Insurers ***
Ten years after HIPAA became a federal law, health insurers are scrambling to make changes to their IT systems in order to comply with one of its last major requirements: the ability to process claims and other electronic transactions using standardized ID numbers for doctors and hospitals. But according to IT executives at more than a half-dozen Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans, insurers' efforts to ready their systems are being hampered by the sluggish pace at which many healthcare providers are adopting the new numbers.
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*** NCVHS Observes 10 Years of HIPAA Lessons Learned ***
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently sent a letter to Secretary Leavitt on lessons learned from HIPAA in the 10 years since the landmark legislation was passed. The letter provides some preliminary observations and recommendations on the implementation and impact of HIPAA. Additional information and recommendations on HIPAA implementation will be included in NCVHS' annual HIPAA report, due later in the year.
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