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The following HIPAA information is for
Wisconsin Chronic Disease Program Providers and Health Care Trading
Partners.
The Administrative Simplification
provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 (HIPAA), commonly referred as to the "HIPAA standards,"
require the Secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) to adopt national standards for:
- The electronic transmission of administrative and financial health
care information (e.g., claims) and code sets (e.g., diagnosis codes,
procedure codes, procedure code modifiers).
- Unique health care identification numbers for providers, health
plans, employers, and individuals.
- Privacy and security of individually identifiable health care
information.
- Electronic submission of claims attachments.
- Enforcement of the components of HIPAA.
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Companion Document Information
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