Business
HHS proposes claims standards
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Oct. 10, 2005
The Dept. of Health and Human Services published in the Federal Register in September its proposed rule to standardize certain electronic claims attachment transactions.
Under the proposed rule, HIPAA-covered entities would be required to use certain messaging standards and a new code set when they provide and respond to requests for clinical information for certain types of services being billed by doctors and hospitals to health plans.
The rule would cover six specific types of attachments: laboratory results, emergency department services, ambulance services, medications, clinical reports and nine rehabilitation specialties. This proposed rule has a two-month public comment period ending on Nov. 23.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/10/10/bibf1010.htm.
