Privacy regulation expected this month
The final privacy regulation mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountabi-lity (HIPAA) of 1996 is expected to be published "before the end of the summer . . . most likely in September," said Stanley Nachimson, senior technical advisor for administration simplification for the Health Care Finance Administration in Baltimore.
Nachimson made his comments before more than 300 health care industry representatives attending a three-day HIPAA conference sponsored by the Data Interchange Standards Association in Alexandria, VA, and the Associa-tion for Electronic Health Care Transactions in Phoenix.
The comments were reported by the HIPAAlert e-mail newsletter, published by Phoenix Health Systems in Montgomery Village, MD.
He did not comment on how the final privacy rule might differ from the proposed rule, published in November 1999. The effective date of the final rule will be 60 days — the period provided for congressional comments — following its publication date.
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