Key HIPAA Websites

http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/ (same as http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp) - Department of Health and  Human Services (DHHS) Administrative Simplification website dealing with the Administrative  Simplification Provisions of HIPAA.  Find the HIPAA regulation text, FAQS, guidance and other official HIPAA information here.

http://cms.hhs.gov - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):  The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  Click here for a quick tour of the new site.

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/education/infoserie/  - HIPAA Information Series from CMS provides ten HIPAA related training and education documents including topics such as key HIPAA related dates, covered entities, testing, and trading partner agreements.

http://www.hipaa-dsmo.org - HIPAA Designated Standards Maintenance Organizations (DSMO):  contains change requests to the HIPAA Implementation Guides including decisions and reasoning for decisions.

http://snip.wedi.org/ (same as http://www.wedi.org/snip/) - WEDI SNIP - Strategic National Implementation Process:  a collaborative industry-wide process to facilitate HIPAA implementation.

http://www.wedi.org/  - Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI):  information on EDI in the health care industry.

http://www.healthprivacy.org/ - Georgetown University's Health Privacy Project

http://www.hipaagives.org/ - HIPAA Gives - Government Information Value Exchange for States

http://www.hl7.org - Health Level 7 standards group for cross-platform exchange of information in health care industry.  This organization is working on attachment standards for HIPAA.

http://www.ahima.org/ - American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

http://library.ahima.org/ - The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) "Body of Knowledge"

http://ncvhs.hhs.gov - National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics:   Public Advisory Body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

http://www.ncpdp.org  - National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP):  standards development organization for retail pharmacy.

http://www.nubc.org - National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC):  This site contains NUBC meeting minutes, activities, materials, and deliberations.

http://www.nucc.org - National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC):  website includes the data content identified by NUCC to be used in a standardized data set for use by the non-institutional health care community to transmit claim and encounter information to and from all third-party payers.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ - Office of Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA website.

http://www.hipaadvisory.com - HIPAAdvisory is sponsored by Phoenix Health Systems

http://www.sharpworkgroup.com/index.html  - Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP):  volunteer workgroup focused on assisting providers in the states of Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee and Texas.

www.wpc-edi.com - Washington Publishing Company - official site for HIPAA Implementation Guides.

http://www.x12.org - The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 develops standards - in X12 and XML formats - for cross-industry electronic exchange of business information.