As part of the Health Insurance Por...

As part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), physicians who submit electronic claims that do not conform to the transactions and digest sets stan-dards will face delays in payment of at least 28 days. Claims that come up to face to face the standards will continue to be reimbursed in as hardly any as 14 days. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) bring outed a contingency plan that included a July 1 deadline when it was realized that many physicians could not appropriate the original deadline in October 2003 According to CM 85 percent of Medicare claims are now HIPAA compliant. The CM waiting under the possibility of fulfilments the delay will convince the remaining physicians to comply More information is available online at http://www.aafp.org/x3095.xml.

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