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Have you achieved linkage with your trading partners? Have you validated your claims system? Have you identified gaps? Have you determined what transactions you will need? Have you started looking at the IGs?
There are less about 75 days till standard transactions and code sets are mandated by Congress. Take a realistic assessment of where you are and where you need to be. If you see a train wreck ahead, I highly recommend you switch tracks and put together a contingency plan.
CMS conducted an open door forum with over 1,500 participants on July 24, 2003. The official CMS TCS compliance guidance was provided at the forum. It can also be viewed by going to www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/guidance-final.pdf. Transcripts of this and past meetings will be / are posted to www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2
The attached PowerPoint is a rough draft of "The Trains will Keep Running" authored by David A. Feinberg, an EDI/X12/HL7 specialist, and a very active advocate of HIPAA compliance. The final presentation is already scheduled to be presented at HIPAA Summit (www.hipaasummit.com) the morning of September 16, 2003.
Take a look at this PowerPoint. It points out the crucial actions that must be taken to ensure business as usual after October 16, 2003:
apply due diligence in transactions compliance;
remain flexible in your movement toward compliance; and
develop a contingency plan with your trading partners.
If you are attending the HIPAA Summit in September, you may want to be primed for the information download that is planned. Consider reading "Understanding HIPAA Communications." Information about this book is also attached.
If you cannot make the HIPAA Summit, but would like to schedule a presentation with David Feinberg, let me know. I have pursuaded David to provide presentations of "The Trains Will Keep Running" outside of the HIPAA Summit, and have volunteered to coordinate these presentations if there is enough interest. No more than 15 should attend at a time in order to allow meaningful participant discussions. I believe that $110 per participanting site will cover each 1-2 hour on-line session. [Note that this price is a rough estimate so it is subject to change. If anyone can do it for less, please let me know.]
I have also attached course curriculum that Rensis Corporation offers that you may find beneficial.
Just one more thing, David Feinberg is the content developer for the TCS module of HIPAA ComplyAssistant, a HIPAA compliance due diligence day-planner, complete with reports, graphs, and reminders. This is an excellent tool for managing your HIPAA compliance initiative. I am looking for two more volunteers to participate in a testing session of the TCS module the last week of August. If you are intimately familiar with the issues of managing compliance with the transactions standard, and would like to participate in the testing, please contact me for more details.
We can do this!
Barbara McGowin, CPC
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Connecting Healthcare Organizations with People,
Products and Services to Achieve HIPAA Compliance
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