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Article: Kinder enforcement indicated for HIPAA EDI.
- Article from:
- Hospital Access Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Kinder enforcement indicated for HIPAA EDI
Many wont be ready, industry groups say
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will use a complaint-driven process to enforce the transactions and code sets provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) after the Oct. 16 implementation deadline, and will focus on using voluntary compliance.
The agency has said it will not impose penalties on covered entities that deploy contingencies to ensure the smooth flow of payments if they have made reasonable and diligent efforts to become compliant and, in the case of health plans, to facilitate the compliance of their ...