HIPAA Transactions
The latest House bill also includes a provision to establish national standards for electronic claims submission and other HIPAA transactions.
The provision calls for officials to develop data exchange capabilities that can:
* Determine a patient’s financial responsibility at the point of service;
* Enable real-time claims adjudication;
* Harmonize data sets from administrative and clinical transactions; and
* Support machine-readable identification cards.
via Latest Reform Bill Would Revise HIPAA Standards, Track Medical Devices – iHealthBeat.
