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HIPAA Privacy Compliance Manual
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Welcome to HARK: HIPAA Awareness and Readiness for Kansas
clip art by Cheryl.com HARK's Mission: Form a collaborative effort to inform, educate, share tools and best practices for the HIPAA readiness in Kansas.
« News and Events »   Last Updated on 4/3/2003
The Community Health Council, Manhattan, is sponsoring a half-day HIPAA Implementation conference on Monday, April 14th.
Cost of the conference is $50.  Electronic Data Interchange, Privacy and Security Rule will be addressed.  Speakers include Catherine Walberg, KaMMCO; INTRAcare, Wichita; Marcia Henderson, ASK-Topeka and Gail Urban, Meadowlark Hills, Manhattan and Ruth Seamans, The Women's Health Group, Manhattan.  An optional HIPAA User's Notebook and CD of all forms and complete rules are available.
The conference is eligible for CEU's and will be held at the Ramada Plaza hotel in Manhattan.  To register, complete the registration form in the attached Conference Brochure, or call toll-free, 1-888-216-0198 or (785) 539-1610.  The conference is co-sponsored by Peterson Clinical Laboratories, The Women's Health Group, Central Kansas Cancer Institute, Dental Associates and Irwin Army Community Hospital.
Meeting Announcement
As a reminder, the next HARK meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 9th at Polk Auditorium in Topeka, KS (1234 Polk).  The meeting will begin at 9:00 am and should conclude by noon.

"TRAIN FOR HIPAA" OFFERS 8 CATEGORIES OF CE CREDITS & LAUNCHES AN EXPANDED HIPAA TRAINING CURRICULUM

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Privacy Conferences - Sponsored by DHHS
Four conferences scheduled for coming weeks
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HIPAA Enforcement Fact Sheet



Your Compliance Extension Plan for Transactions and Code Sets is submitted -- Now What???
Phoenix Health Systems (http://www.phoenixhealth.com/) supports a large website containing extensive resources relating to HIPAA Compliance, Enforcement, Deadlines and other topics of wide interest.


Workgroup Activities and Minutes [updated 9/4/02]

Implementing HIPAA in Kansas
The Administrative Simplification provisions within the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 introduce a number of significant changes for the health care system. Standardization of claims transactions and restrictions on the use of health information create a number of issues for the health care industry. Collaboration and sharing of information will be critical as Kansas addresses this issue.

To foster the collaboration needed for this effort, a group of representatives from major Kansas stake holders has convened to develop strategies to address HIPAA readiness issues.

The goal is to share information and best practices while fostering efficiencies in implementing the HIPAA provisions. This will save time and money for the covered entities in Kansas that HIPAA affects.

Work Groups
Work groups are being convened to develop consensus regarding their particular focus areas. Deliverables such as recommended processes and procedures will be created and made available on a common web site for all of Kansas.
  • Transactions:
    • Develop an understanding of the differences between the current Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) claim formats (NSF and UB92) and the ANSI X12 837 formats;
    • the use of the other new transactions (eligibility, claims status, authorization, attachments, etc.);
    • the implication of the new code sets and other business issues as a result of the HIPAA transaction requirements.

  • Privacy:
    • Develop an understanding of the final HIPAA privacy rules and the recent guidance document in identifying the business issues surrounding the HIPAA privacy requirements.

  • Security:
    • Develop an understanding of the proposed HIPAA security rules and other business issues as a result of the HIPAA security requirements.

  • Awareness and Education:
    • Develop methods to address awareness and education issues in an effort to inform those affected by the impact of the HIPAA regulations. The approach would be leveraged off of the activities of professional associations, societies and other organizations already existing in Kansas.
 

Deadlines
October 15, 2002 -- Extension plans must be filed
October 16, 2002 -- Must be ready to comply with standards if no extension plan is filed
April 14, 2003 -- Privacy rules go into effect
April 16, 2003 -- Must begin testing transactions systems
On August 14 the Final Changes to the Privacy Rule were posted in the Federal Register.