Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is the legislation that called for the Department of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations related to the electronic transmission of health care transactions and the privacy and security of health care information.

Frequently Asked Questions

Privacy

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information - Final December 28, 2000

• Preamble: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/final/pvcpre01.htm
• Regulation: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/final/pvctxt01.htm

Modifications to Final Privacy regulation - August 14, 2002
www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/privruletxt.txt

Redlined version of Final Privacy regulation, incorporating modifications:
www.hipaadvisory.com/regs/finalprivacymod/AnnotatedPrivacy081402.doc

Office for Civil Rights Summary of HIPAA Privacy Rule
www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacysummary.pdf

Office for Civil Rights Guidance and Q & A - December 2002
www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/privacy.html

Office for Civil Rights Assistance

• Telephone Hotline 1-866-627-7748
• E-mail mailto:OCRprivacy@hhs.gov
  

Security Standards - Final - February 20, 2003
www.cms.hhs.gov/regulations/hipaa/cms0003- 5/0049f-econ-ofr-2-12-03.pdf

Interim Rule on Electronic Submission of Claims to Medicare - August 15, 2003
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/pdf/03-20955.pdf

 

Modifications to final Transactions regulation - February 20, 2003
www.cms.hhs.gov/regulations/hipaa/cms0003- 5/0003ofr2-10.pdf

Standards for Electronic Transactions (Final)

• Preamble: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/final/txfin00.htm
• Regulation: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/final/txfin01.htm

CMS Enforcement Guidance
www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/guidance-final.pdf

 

CMS HIPAA 101 Paper
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/education/
infoserie/1-HIPAA101toasted3.PDF

 

CMS Provider Readiness Checklist
www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/readinessChkLst.pdf

CMS Telephone Hotline: 1-866-282-0659

CMS E-mail: askHIPAA@CMS.hhs.gov

This DHHS site keeps you posted on the most current official actions related to HIPAA. Includes links to the regulations, official guidance, frequently asked questions about the transaction standards, and background on the evolution of HIPAA. Provides mechanisms for submitting questions about the transaction standards and registering for e-mail updates directly from DHHS.

The Office for Civil Rights is charged with enforcing the privacy regulations. This site includes links to the privacy regulation, a summary of the regulation, a mechanism for submitting questions, and the most current news about the privacy regulation.

WEDI is a national health care industry collaboration to promote electronic data interchange. SNIP is a project of WEDI to help coordinate national HIPAA implementation and provide implementation assistance. This site includes overviews of regulations, white papers, implementation checklists and tools, rosters of consulting services and vendors, calendar of seminars, links to other HIPAA-related sites.

Includes links to regulations, articles, frequently asked questions, product listings, checklists, sample forms and policies, calendar of seminars.

Includes current HIPAA news, awareness information, assessment and compliance tools, frequently asked questions, and links to other HIPAA sites.

Includes HIPAA news, frequently asked questions and articles. Miscellaneous HIPAA
tools are available to members.

Includes links to regulations, HIPAA updates and information about AMA advocacy efforts on HIPAA.

Includes audiocassettes for purchase and, for members, access to articles about various HIPAA issues.

Washington Publishing Company publishes the HIPAA Implementation Guides for the transaction standards. The guides are available for download at no charge, or on CD-ROM or in hard copy for a fee.

HIPAAdvisory is a Web site of Phoenix Health Systems, a health care IT consulting and outsourcing firm. This site includes searchable versions of the regulations, current HIPAA news, frequently asked questions, and links to vendors of HIPAA services. Site visitors can subscribe to HIPAAlert, a free e-mail newsletter, and register for HIPAAlive, an e-mail discussion group.

The Health Privacy Project Web site includes information about additional federal and state laws that impact patient privacy.

Revised: March 2004