Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible for implementing various unrelated provisions of HIPAA.

Title I of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. Visit this site to find out about pre-existing conditions and portability of health insurance coverage.

The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II) require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers. It also addresses the security and privacy of health data. Adopting these standards will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the nation's health care system by encouraging the widespread use of electronic data interchange in health care.

HIPAA Resources for Hospitals

HIPAA Preemption Analysis order form

HIPAA Press Release

Maine hospitals implement new federal privacy rules

HIPAA Links

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

HIPAA.ORG

www.nhvship.org (a combination of the existing activities of VSHIP--Vermont Strategic HIPAA Implementation Plan and NHHA (New Hampshire Hospital Association).