Resources
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:
- CMS Web Site This page is titled "The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)" Includes HIPAA Health Insurance Reform (protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families), The Administrative Simplification Provisions, model compliance extension form, responses to FAQ, links, and the law/regulations concerning HIPAA
- Free Video: CMS Meeting the HIPAA Challenge: Implementing the Administrative Simplifications of HIPAA. Call 410/786-4232 or Email request for video (and for questions on HIPAA administrative simplification)
- Free web registration for notices of rules when published in the Federal Register
- HIPAA
Privacy Rule and Public Health
Guidance from CDC and the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services - CMS HIPAA Hotline: 410-786-4232
- HIPAA Privacy requirement information. Privacy related questions: 866/672-7748 or email.
- Medicaid HIPAA website
AAPA: HIPAA Online Tutorial, $39 members, $49 nonmembers
Physicians Practice: A magazine sponsored regionally by medical centers. Enter HIPAA on the search bar on this site and it will give you a list of 25 articles on the subject, along with links to their question and answer column.
WEDI Foundation: What is HIPAA? Sections include HCFA, Overview of the legislation, Download the final Transactions Rule, Transactions and Code Sets, Identifiers, Security Standards, Privacy, HIPAA Glossary, WEDI Comment Letters, WEDI Policy Advisory Groups, HIPAA Regulatory Documents and Reports
Articles on this site:
HIPAA
- An Introduction to the New Privacy Rules for Medical Information
Physicians
Sue to Block HIPAA Privacy Rule in 2001
HIPAA
Rules bring Confusion,
August, 2003
Physicians
feeling Fallout of HIPAA Privacy Law
Debunking
some common myths about the HIPAA privacy rule
October
16, 2003 Deadline
for HIPAA Provisions
