tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 30

HIPAA: TRANSACTION RULE ENFORCEMENT FORECAST

CMS tips its hand on how it will handle post Oct. 16 TCS compliance violations  There's good news and there's bad news in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' much-anticipated guidance on compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transactions standard. The bad news: The guidance doesn't establish a formal, gradual compliance phase-in period, as many provider groups have pleaded for. The good news: The guidance shows that CMS plans to treat noncompliance gingerly, at least at first. Titled "Guidance on Compliance with HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets After the Oct. 16, 2003 Implementation Deadline...

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