The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law impacting various aspects of the health care industry. HIPAA regulations include areas such as insurance reform, fraud and abuse, electronic transactions, and privacy rules.
Medical practices should have implemented portions of HIPAA's administrative simplification rules, detailed in the categories below. Electronic signature standards and standards for health plan indentifiers and individual identifiers have not been finalized.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society provides physicians, practice managers, and others impacted by HIPAA with the latest news and resources to help you understand and implement the various components of HIPAA.