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Tricia,
While I can't speak for other covered entities, I
believe that the sooner you begin communicating with your top trading partners
and exchanging HIPAA compliance readiness plans the better. There is nothing to
be gained by not contacting them and waiting for the gong to
ring.
Rachel
Foerster
Principal
Rachel Foerster & Associates, Ltd.
Professionals
in EDI & Electronic Commerce
39432 North Avenue
Beach Park, IL
60099
Phone: 847-872-8070
Fax: 847-872-6860
http://www.rfa-edi.com
My areas of responsibility include a hospital, multi
specialty physician practice, homecare/hospice, mental health, etc, etc.
(quite a variety of the healthcare provider covered entities) --- my question
is.....
we receive payments from quite a number of health
plans and other than a couple of the major payers (Medicare and one of our
HMOs) we haven't really received any information on what their plans for
compliance are..... have any other providers taken the initiative to contact
their payers (if not all, at least the major ones) to get some "baseline"
information from them? On one hand, seems like a good idea, on the other
seems like quite an undertaking and would the results be worth it?
Thanks for any opinion/ input
Trish Lobdell
HIPAA Coordinator
The Monroe Clinic
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