AMA CPT® Assistant - 2002 Issue 10 (October)

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Overview-Focus on Provider Taxonomy (October 2002)

October 2002 pages 5-7 Coding Commentary:The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Overview-Focus on Provider Taxonomy The federal government is moving to implement aspects of the administrative simplification legislation enacted in 1996. HIPAA outlines an approach to the adoption of national health data standards to support electronic data interchange (EDI) in the health care industry in the United States. The law requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt standards to support the EDI of a variety of administrative health care transactions. The transactions for which standards are being adopted include health...

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