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Welcome to HARK: HIPAA
Awareness and Readiness for Kansas
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 HARK's Mission: Form a collaborative effort to inform,
educate, share tools and best practices for the
HIPAA readiness in Kansas.
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« News and Events » Last Updated on 4/3/2003
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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.
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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.
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"TRAIN FOR HIPAA"
OFFERS 8 CATEGORIES OF CE CREDITS & LAUNCHES AN EXPANDED HIPAA TRAINING CURRICULUM
More Information
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Privacy Conferences - Sponsored by DHHS
Four conferences scheduled for coming weeks
More Information on agendas and registration
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HIPAA Enforcement Fact Sheet
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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.
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Workgroup Activities and Minutes
[updated 9/4/02]
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Implementing HIPAA in
Kansas
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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.
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Work Groups
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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.
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Transactions:
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Develop an understanding of the differences
between the current Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) claim formats (NSF and
UB92) and the ANSI X12 837 formats;
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the use of the other new transactions
(eligibility, claims status, authorization,
attachments, etc.);
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the implication of the new code sets and
other business issues as a result of the
HIPAA transaction requirements.
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Privacy:
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Develop an understanding of the final HIPAA
privacy rules and the recent guidance
document in identifying the business issues
surrounding the HIPAA privacy requirements.
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Security:
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Develop an understanding of the proposed
HIPAA security rules and other business
issues as a result of the HIPAA security
requirements.
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Awareness and Education:
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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.
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Deadlines
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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
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On August 14 the
Final Changes to the
Privacy Rule were posted in the Federal Register.
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Collaboration for Success
