For your consideration ... .
Clearly documenting ambiguities, or any other difficulties, in
HIPAA-adopted materials is good.
Defining possible solutions or clarifying questions is also
likely to be useful.
However, only the individual Designated Standards Maintenance
Organizations (DSMO) can make any changes to their particular
HIPAA-adopted materials, and these changes must at some point, under
the terms of the DSMO Memorandum of Understanding, be coordinated
and agreed-to by the DSMO Steering Committee. [And then the agreed-to
changes get to go through the Federal regulatory process for HIPAA
adoption.]
There are two main routes for contacting the individual DSMO:
(a) As noted in an earlier message, use the mechanisms
already available at one or more individual DSMO [although the list of
X12N contacts provided does not directly contain the X12N/TG2 work
group co-chairs whose teams actually determine Implementation Guide
contents], and/or
(b) Use the www.hipaa-dsmo.org web site's FAQ and change
request capabilities. [Recommended approach as it's typically the
easiest, simplest, most effective, and allows explicit DSMO
coordination from the outset.]
And finally, far and away the best way to actually affect changes
to HIPAA transactions is to focus available resources and become
members and active participants in one or more of the DSMO themselves:
X12N, NCPDP, HL7, NUBC, NUCC, DCC. [One of Feinberg's Rules:
go to the primary source whenever available.]
Happy 2003 to all.
Dave Feinberg
Co-Chair, HIPAA Implementation Work Group
Insurance Subcommittee (X12N)
Accredited Standards Committee X12
Voting Member, HL7 and X12
Rensis Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
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