Agency: "Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)." SUMMARY: This rule would implement requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently issued a proposed rule to adopt standards under the Health ...

The nation's largest group representing physician medical practices says the process to set electronic transaction standards between providers and health plans is "broken" and the government is ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) contains administrative simplification provisions that are designed to encourage health care providers and health plans to process ...

The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association is lobbying the Bush administration and Congress for an additional two years to come into compliance with the "administrative simplification" requirements of the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is searching for healthcare providers to participate in a new pilot program aimed at simplifying HIPAA compliance. Agency officials sent out a notice ...

When enacting the HIPAA administrative simplification provisions, Congress authorized the Secretary of HHS or his designee to impose a maximum CMP of $100 for each violation, subject to a calendar ...

CMS tomorrow will broadcast via satellite a 60-minute video providing an overview of the administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. "Meeting ...

While physician practices can complain about a health plan’s failure to comply with HIPAA and Affordable Care Act requirements, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has yet to issue a single ...

This notice sets out a summary of the use and burden associated with the following information collections. More detailed information can be found in each collection's supporting statement and ...

In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA, was passed with the goal of increasing the efficiency and accessibility of health insurance coverage, and ...

The modifications proposed by CMS have been largely endorsed by the AHA and reported to result in cost savings, improved efficiency through standardization, and reduction of provider burnout by ...