marc, You might want to start with The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) web site. It offers a variety of products and tools to help with HIPAA implementation. Included on the site is a checklist to help with Transaction and Code Set regulation compliance, a list of compliance deadlines, and information about HIPAA compliance teleconference "roundtables". The web site can be found at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/default.asp . For you, the initial focus is on Transaction and Code Set regulation compliance.
The physician offices that you support need to have a Business Associate Agreement with you given the likelihood that you will see Protected Health Information since you provide & support their billing software. Among other non Paper Work Reduction Act things they will need is a Chain of Trust Agreement with every clearing house your software exchanges electronic data with. Bob Speth, Office Manager Nancy L Orchard, MD 470 Del Norte Avenue Yuba City CA 95991 530.674.4560 ----- Original Message ----- From: "marc schluter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:39 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off Topic HIPAA Question > Hi all > > Is anyone working on HIPAA regs and how it relates to > billing software for doctors offices? > > I have aprox 30 doctors offices using my app to bill > patients and insurance. Some have asked if my > software is HIPAA compliant. As far as I can tell > there is very little I have to do on my end to be > ready for HIPAA. > > We use a clearing house for electronic claims and they > are taking care of that part of HIPAA. > > Sorry, to post this on the list but I can't get a > straight answer from the experts I have asked so far. > > Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > thanks > marc > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com
