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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

• CMS SMD Guidance on NPI Implementation Contingency Plan (August 9, 2007)

  • Additional NPI Guidance (August 9, 2007)

• NPI Fact Sheet for Provider Organizations (July 2007)

• NPI Fact Sheet for Sole Proprietors (July 2007)

• NPI Data Dissemination Roundtable June 14th from 2-3:30PM EDT (June 6, 2007)
• HIPAA Guidance on NPI Data Dissemination (May 30, 2007)
• HHS Enhanced Health Privacy Compliance and Enforcement (April 25, 2007)
• CMS Guidance on NPI Contingency Plan (April 2, 2007)
• SMD Letter on NPI Implementation (September 19, 2006)
• HHS HIPAA Privacy Decision Tool (July 5, 2006)
• CMS Countdown to NPI Requirement (May 25, 2006)
• CMS Applications for New National Provider Identifier (May 2005)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the HIPAA Security Rule (March 2005)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes the 3rd in its series of seven educational papers on the HIPAA Security Rule: Security Standards: Physical Safeguards (March 2005)
• ANCOR HIPAA Security Compliance Manual Now Available! Order Yours Today
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• HHS Publishes National Provider Identifier Final Rule Background and HHS Final Rule.
• Need information on HIPAA's Transaction and Code Set Standards. Go to www.wedi.org/snip/
  
• CMS Issues Guidance for Compliance with HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets--This new guidance sets forth CMS' approach to enforcement of the Transaction and Code Set Standards after the October 16th Implementation Deadline (August 1, 2003)
• Helpful CMS HIPAA Resources (August 1, 2003)
• Questions to Ask Vendors, Clearinghouses Regarding the Transactions & Code Set Standards (August 1, 2003)
• Steps Toward HIPAA Compliance (August 1, 2003)
• Transaction and Code Set Readiness Checklist for Providers (July 2003)
• Helpful HIPAA resources for Medicaid Providers (July 2003)
• HIPAA Contingency Planning Guidance from CMS
  
• CMS Modifications to Electronic Transaction Rule (March 28, 2003)
• CMS Fact Sheet on the Final Security Rule (March 28, 2003)
• HHS Publishes Final HIPAA Security Rule (February 20, 2003)
• OCR Guidance on HIPAA Privacy Rule-December 2002 (December 2002)
• Updated FAQs on the Privacy Rule from OCR (October 2002)
• HHS Final Changes to Privacy Rule (August 14, 2002)
  • HHS Press Release
  • HHS Fact Sheet
• New CMS Decision Tool Help Providers Determine If They Are a HIPAA Covered Entity (August 14, 2002)
• General Information HIPAA Administrative Simplification (August 14, 2002)
• Get information on the HIPAA Privacy Compliance Resource Manual for ANCOR Private Providers (October 8, 2002)
• State Privacy Law Summaries (September 20, 2002) The Health Privacy Project at Georgetown University provides summaries of state health privacy laws that can assist covered entities in understanding how HIPAA's Privacy Rule and their state's health privacy statutes may interact.
  
• ANCOR Comments on HHS's Proposed Modifications to the Privacy Rule
  MS Word (May 2, 2002)
• Electronic Transactions and Code Sets Standards Extension Form Now Available (April 5, 2002)
  • Compliance Form and Instructions (pdf) (April 5, 2002)
• Frequently Asked Questions on Administrative Simplification (February 26, 2002)
  
• Health Privacy Rule Will Take Effect April 14th Without Additional Delay (April 12, 2001) HHS Press Release ; Statement by the President
• ANCOR's response to HIPAA Final Health Privacy Regulation (March 30, 2001)

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