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Other Links:
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From PriceWaterhouseCoopers:
HIPAA
Overview;
HIPAA Myths, Realities, and Opportunities
(Adobe Acrobat required)
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Learn more about HIPAA at
the
US Department of Health and HumanServices
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Learn about regional efforts
to confront the challenges posed by HIPAA.
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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
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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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Workgroup Activities and Minutes
The HARK workgroup steering committee has decided to cancel the
upcoming meeting on
Wednesday, September 11th. We will resume meeting the 2nd
Wednesday of each month in October.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 9th.
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Collaboration for Success
