The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA)

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) is responsible for implementing various unrelated
provisions of HIPAA, therefore HIPAA may mean different things to
different people. Here's a directory of CMS's business activities
with regard to HIPAA.
HIPAA Health Insurance Reform

Title I of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
of 1996 (HIPAA) protects health insurance coverage for workers and
their families when they change or lose their jobs. Visit this site
to find out about pre-existing conditions and portability of health
insurance coverage.

* HIPAA Insurance Reform

HIPAA Administrative Simplification

The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II) require
the Department of Health and Human Services to establish national
standards for electronic health care transactions and national
identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers. It also
addresses the security and privacy of health data. Adopting these
standards will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the
nation's health care system by encouraging the widespread use of
electronic data interchange in health care.

* HIPAA Administrative Simplification

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/