Who is required to use the standards?
All private sector health plans (including managed care organizations and ERISA plans, but exlcuding certain small self administered health plans) and government health plans (including Medicare, State Medicaid programs, the Military Health System for active duty and civilian personnel, the Veterans Health Administration, and Indian Health Service programs), all health care clearinghouses, and all health care providers that choose to submit or receive these transactions electronically are required to use these standards. These “covered entities” must use the standards when conducting any of the defined transactions covered under the HIPAA.
All private sector health plans (including managed care organizations and ERISA plans, but exlcuding certain small self administered health plans) and government health plans (including Medicare, State Medicaid programs, the Military Health System for active duty and civilian personnel, the Veterans Health Administration, and Indian Health Service programs), all health care clearinghouses, and all health care providers that choose to submit or receive these transactions electronically are required to use these standards. These “covered entities” must use the standards when conducting any of the defined transactions covered under the HIPAA. A health care clearinghouse may accept nonstandard transactions for the sole purpose of translating them into standard transactions for sending customers and may accept standard transactions and translate them into nonstandard transactions for receiving customers.
