AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 1 (January)

HIPAA Update (January 2005)

January 2005 pages 1-6 HIPAA Update In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In addition to creating consumer protection for health care benefits, which is the portability part of HIPAA, the law was meant to do the following: Standardize financial and administrative health transactions for the public and private sectors Increase speed and efficiency Cut the costs of delivering health care services Set minimum standards of protection for the storage, use, and transfer of protected health information (PHI) The HIPAA statute has five titles. The second title contains the administrative simplification provisions, which will...

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