Great answer. I was drafting one much like it, but you beat me to the "Send" button.
Larry -----Original Message----- From: Kepa Zubeldia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compliance Testing Sandy, All of them! You cannot be compliant with HIPAA if your transactions do not balance, or if you don't meet the inter-segment dependencies, or if you don't care for the instructions in the gray boxes, or if your code sets are non-HIPAA, or if you don't meet the situational requirements that apply to your business. So, being compliant with syntax does not make you compliant with the rest. That is why we cannot think of the six levels as "levels" but rather as types of testing that needs to be done. And you cannot say "I am compliant up to level 5". You either are compliant with all of them or you are not HIPAA compliant. The exception could be if none of the "specialty" types of rules apply to you. Obviously if you are an ambulance company you need to comply with all the ambulance requirements, but if you are a pediatrician you don't need to comply with the requirements for ambulance, or DME, or oxygen, or home health, or hospice, or other "specialty" requirements. In that case, none of the "Level 6" requirements would apply to you. I hope this helps. Kepa Cassell, Sandy wrote: > > > > > What levels of testing is required by HHS to be considered compliant. I > believe WEDI is supporting levels 1, 2 and 5. Is this approved by HHS? > > Thank you. > > > Sandy Cassell > HIPAA Customer Management Team > MC L831 > (248) 486-2134 > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > To be removed from this list, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request.
