HIPAA Blog

[ Monday, March 13, 2023 ]

 

New HIPAA Standards for attachments and electronic signatures: I saw this in December and tagged it for blogging, but lost it in my overcrowded email folders.  This is one of those super-insider-HIPAA deals, but CMS is proposing a new HIPAA standard transaction for attachments and e-signatures. As you may know (or not), one of the original purposes of HIPAA was to standardize (and thus simplify) many of the mundane daily transactions that providers and payors engage in when providing and paying for medical care. Originally, 9 separate transaction standards were adopted: 


The new proposal relates to several of these, particularly 276-278 and 837.  Attachments have always been a non-standard add-on to standard transactions, which in many ways defeats the purpose of the standardization.  The new rule won't completely fix the non-standardized attachments problem, but will streamline a portion of the process.  It'll take awhile for providers and payors to get the new processes rolled out, but once they're done, it should result in some cost-savings.

CMS' fact sheet is here, and the Federal Register posting is here



Jeff [9:12 AM]

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