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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)’s primary purpose is to provide better access to health insurance, limit fraud and abuse, and reduce administrative costs. HIPAA has mandated regulations that govern privacy, security, and electronic transactions standards for health care information. HIPAA impacts all healthcare organizations-health care providers (even single physician offices), health plans, employers, public health authorities, life insurers, clearinghouses, billing agencies, information systems vendors, service organizations, and universities.The administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA are intended to reduce the number of forms and methods of completing claims, and other payment-related documents, and to use a universal identifier for providers of health care.
The five specific areas of administrative simplification addressed by HIPAA |