HIPAA Law

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Public Law 104-191
• HIPAA Title II, Subtitle F, Administrative Simplification
• Administrative Simplification Compliance Act (ASCA) Public Law 107-105
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – Federal Agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs. Formerly known as HCFA

Privacy Rule

• Final Privacy Rule
• Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

Security Rule

• Proposed Security Rule
• Final Security Rule
  

Transactions and Code Sets

• Final Transactions and Code Sets Rule
• Accredited Standards Committee (ASC X12)
• American Dental Association (ADA)
• American Hospital Association Central Office on ICD-9-CM (AHA)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Designated Standard Maintenance Organizations (DSMO)
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Current Procedural Coding System Committee
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Place of Service Codes
• Health Level Seven (HL7) – One of several ANSI-accredited Standards Developing Organizations (DSOs) operating in the healthcare arena. HL7 develops specifications, the most widely used being a messenging standard that enables disparate healthcare applications to exchange key sets of clinical and administrative data
• National Council of Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)
• National Drug Code Directory (NCD)
• National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) – Formed to develop a single billing form and standard data set that could be used nation
• National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC) – Created to develop a standardized data set for use by the non-institutional healthcare community to transmit claim and encounter information to and from all third parties
• Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC)
• Washington Publishing Company (WPC)

Hawaii-specific HIPAA Sites

• Hawaii Health Information Corporation - HIPAA Collaboration
• http://www.state.hi.us/oip/medical_privacy_task_force.htm