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HHSC HIPAA Project Overview
Medicaid HIPAA Privacy Notices
CHIP HIPAA Privacy Notices
HHSC HIPAA Program Management Office
Questions/Answers
Web Resources
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Provider Alert: October 16th is the
deadline when all electronic transactions covered by HIPAA must
comply with transaction and codes set standards for formatting
content.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) -- Federal Privacy Regulations
Report of the National Data
Interchange Standards (NDIS) Task Force, January 2003
The Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public
Law 104-191, was enacted by Congress to reform the healthcare
insurance market and simplify health care administrative
processes.
Subtitle
F, Administrative
Simplification, of Title II, Preventing Healthcare Fraud and
Abuse, of HIPAA is specifically intended to reduce the
costs and administrative burdens of health care by making possible
the standardized, electronic transmission of many administrative
and financial transactions that are currently carried out manually
on paper.
The 76th Texas Legislature (Senate
Bill 1591) created the National
Data Interchange Standards (NDIS) Task Force to develop a
coordinated strategy for state implementation of the national data
interchange standards adopted under HIPAA. As specified by
the legislation, member agencies of the task force are:
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Employees Retirement System of Texas
- Texas Department of Health
- Texas Health Care Information Council
- Health and Human Services Commission
- Texas Department of Human Services
- Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Department of Information Resources
- Texas Department of Insurance
- Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
- Teacher Retirement System of Texas
- State Office of Risk Management
- Texas Workers' Compensation Commission
HHSC has established a HIPAA Program Management Office to
coordinate HIPAA implementation activities among the impacted
agencies. For general project information, contact Cathy
Lorenzen, Project Director, at Cathy.Lorenzen@hhsc.state.tx.us.
If you have specific questions regarding HIPAA implementation
issues, please send those questions to hipaa@hhsc.state.tx.us.
These questions and the responses will be posted on the Question and Answer Page of this web
site.
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