It is good marketing practice to provide free resources about your industry. If one is an authority and publishes useful content, one might even become a hub of knowledge on a subject. That's what Emdeon aims to accomplish with HIPAA Simplified, a one-stop online resource for guiding the healthcare industry's transition to HIPAA 5010, NCPDP D.0 and ICD-10 standards announced on January 22, 2010.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published rules that require updated versions of the standards for electronic transactions under the authority of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). These updated standards (Versions 5010 and D.0) will replace the current standards (Versions 4010/4010A1 and 5.1) and are designed to promote greater efficiency in electronic transactions. Compliance with the new HIPAA 5010 and NCPDP D.0 standards is required by January 12, 2012. The ICD-10 code sets are required in transactions as of October 1, 2013.
HIPAA Simplified is intended to be a resource to help guide the healthcare industry through the transition to the new standards. The site features technical gap analysis documentation, simplified business-level topics, trading partner transition strategy information, frequently asked questions, testing tools and resource pages that are specific to each of the affected healthcare industry segments.
HIPAA Simplified will serve as a communication hub as Emdeon helps its customers adopt the 5010 and D.0 standards prior to 2012. Because the conversion will affect transaction sets for Emdeon's entire network of physicians, hospitals, payers, pharmacies, dentists and channel partners, Emdeon is working diligently to help its customers seamlessly meet the new requirements for HIPAA 5010, NCPDP D.0 and ICD-10.
Website: http://www.emdeon.com/5010/