Resources for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Shift in Reform Focus to the Senate

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In a 220-215 vote, the U.S. House passed a massive health reform bill. The bill, like two pending proposals in the Senate, retains administrative simplification language to make more uniform the HIPAA transaction sets for claims and related transactions. The Senate is expected to begin considering its health reform proposals later this month. The House bill's language requires adoption of "operating rules" that payer advocacy organization CAQH has championed to standardize the HIPAA standards. The goal of the operating rules is to make financial and administrative transactions as easy to conduct as an ATM transaction.

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