PRACTICE RESOURCES
HIPAA /NPI
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104-191, which became law on August 21, 1996 protecting the privacy of health information given the rapid evolution of health information systems
HIPAA's Administrative Simplification provisions, sections 261 through
264 of the statute, were designed to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of the health care system by facilitating the electronic
exchange of information with respect to certain financial and
administrative transactions carried out by health plans, health care
clearinghouses, and health care providers who transmit information
electronically in connection with such transactions. To implement these
provisions, the statute directed HHS to adopt a suite of uniform,
national standards for transactions, unique health identifiers, code
sets for the data elements of the transactions, security of health
information, and electronic signature.
The following links provide details of the genesis and progress of the HIPAA Regulations.
The full text of the final regulations are available online at the Department of Health and Human Services at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/.
MSSNY wishes to thank the law firm Jenner & Block for the
summary and regulatory update regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule
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