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HHS proposed the adoption of standards for claims attachments
On September 23, 2005, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt proposed the adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims
On September 23, 2005, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt proposed the adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims, a requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The proposed standards which are published in the Federal Register apply to electronic transactions to request and provide clinical information for certain types of services that are being billed by the provider to the health plan.
The proposed standards includes the use of HL7 messaging standard to transmit the data. The proposal also adopts LOINC as a new HIPAA code set.
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