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Health Insurance Portability and 
Accountability Act (HIPAA)

What's New?

• HCFA Delays Start of APC System
  
  The Health Care Financing Administration has delayed the start of the
  Ambulatory Payment Classification prospective payment system for Medicare
  reimbursement until August 1. The APC system for hospital outpatient services
  was scheduled to take effect on July 1. HCFA Administrator Nancy-Ann DeParle
  says that informal surveys of the hospital community indicated that a
  "significant number" were not ready to implement the APC system. The new
  coding system goes into effect for other, non-hospital health care
  organizations later this year and next. 

• Rx2000 To Bring Top Government and Healthcare Leaders Together To Discuss HIPAA And eHealth

• To view the most recent schedule as published by the
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(click here)

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