Official formal Notices of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM's) -- i.e., draft
federal regulations -- to update HIPAA transactions and code sets were
published today, 8/22/2008, in the Federal Register. They may be
obtained at the following links:
Transactions: X12 and NCPDP
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-19296.pdf
Code Sets: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-19298.pdf
Anybody may submit comments regarding these NPRM's from today through
Tuesday, 10/21/2008. References in any comments should be solely to the
versions of the NPRM's contained in the Federal Register. All
pre-publication versions -- particularly from the CMS web site -- should
be discarded; portions have small but significant errors that have been
corrected.


Copies of X12's Type 3 Technical Reports (TR3's) incorporated by
reference into the Version 005010 NPRM may be obtained via the following
shortcut link:
http://store.X12.org .
As CMS is no longer subsidizing X12 for these documents, it will cost
you directly to have them downloaded or shipped. Note, though, that
there is a single price for a package of all nine of the proposed
version 005010 TR3's. [If you're downloading, the present $750 package
price breakeven point is more than four TR3's.]


Playbacks of pre-recorded webinars providing insight from X12's subject
matter experts on how the proposed version 005010 TR3's address
industry-requested requirements can be obtained via
http://www.x12.org/webinars.
Topics covered in these webinars include:
+ global changes across all affected transactions, including
details of explanatory, technical and structural
modifications,
+ the business justification for recommended solutions included
in version 005010, and
+ methods to address each of the nine proposed updated X12
transactions.


And, finally, the authors of the version 005010 TR3's will be working on
NPRM comments and responses to NPRM comments during X12's upcoming
Trimester Meeting, 21-25 September, in Pittsburgh, PA. This meeting is
open to all, and logistics for attending may be obtained at
http://www.x12.org/x12org/meetings/x12trimt/index.cfm .
Be advised, though, that the block of rooms at the X12 group rate in the
Omni William Penn hotel is already filled.


Dave Feinberg
Rensis Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
DAFeinberg@...
Author of "Understanding HIPAA Communications"