Since I filed for a one-year extension on compliance with the Transactions and Code Sets portion of HIPAA, I have until October 16, 2003 to comply. What exactly is this portion of HIPAA?
Transactions are activities involving the transfer of health care information for specific purposes. Under HIPAA, if a physician or other health care provider engages in one of the identified transactions, he or she must comply with the standard for that transaction. HIPAA requires every physician or other health care provider who does business electronically to use the same health care transactions, code sets, and identifiers. HIPAA has identified the ten standard transactions for Electronic Data Interchange for the transmission of health care data. (According to the AMAs Field Guide to HIPAA Implementation, “Electronic data interchange, or EDI, is the computer-to-computer exchange of routine business information using publicly available standards. The HIPAA EDI standards will allow physicians and other health care providers, health plans, clearinghouses, and other entities to exchange business data electronically and process the information on computers with less human interaction. T
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- Since I filed for a one-year extension on compliance with the Transactions and Code Sets portion of HIPAA, I have until October 16, 2003 to comply. What exactly is this portion of HIPAA?
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