What are some of the benefits of industry-wide implementation of HIPAA Title II?
In the longer term, HIPAA compliance throughout the health care industry will result in: • enhanced privacy and security of an individual’s personal health information • provider and health plan overhead cost reductions through standardization • more consistent processes among health plans as electronic formats and values will be uniform throughout the health care industry • simplification of data submission through standardized transactions and code sets • availability of a new option for submitting authorizations and referrals that allows transmission of multiple referrals and authorizations in standardized formats • additional options for online and batch inquiries provide an alternative to send multiple claim inquiries in one file and to receive a timely response on the status of each requested claim
