Government
HIPAA rules on the calendar
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 17, 2005
Officials of the Dept. of Health and Human Services plan to publish four new proposed rules based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act during the first half of 2005. One will establish a long-awaited standard for attachments to electronic claims. The others involve enforcement of administrative simplification; a national identifier system for health plans; and transaction and code set revisions.
The claims rule should come out sometime in January and will allow physicians and others to begin working toward full implementation of electronic transactions. The enforcement rule, planned for February, will detail actions and fines applicable to covered entities not compliant with those rules. Publication of the other two rules is planned for April and June, respectively.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/01/17/gvbf0117.htm.
