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Identifier
Standard/Rule (HIPAA)
Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations
are divided into four parts: (1) Privacy,
(2) Security, (3) Identifier
and (4) Transactions
and Code Sets. Regulations associated with the third of
these mandate uniform identifiers for plans, providers, employers
and (perhaps also) patients.
It is this standardization
-- along with the introduction of uniform transaction formats
for electronice data interchange (EDI) -- that is expected
to yield the efficiency savings of "administrative
simplification."
See also:
Last modified:
14-May-2005
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