Administrative Simplification - Adoption of Operating Rules for Eligibility for Health Plan and Health Care Claim Status Transactions (US Centers for

Administrative Simplification - Adoption of Operating Rules for Eligibility for Health Plan and Health Care Claim Status Transactions (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Administrative Simplification - Adoption of Operating Rules for Eligibility for Health Plan and Health Care Claim Status Transactions (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 Section 1104 of the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereafter referred to as the Affordable Care Act) establishes new requirements for administrative transactions that will improve the utility of the existing HIPAA transactions and reduce administrative costs. Specifically, in section 1104(b)(2) of the Affordable Care Act, Congress required the adoption of operating rules for the health care industry and directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to "adopt a single set of operating rules for each transaction * * * with the goal of creating as much uniformity in the implementation of the electronic standards as possible." This book contains: - The complete text of the Administrative Simplification - Adoption of Operating Rules for Eligibility for Health Plan and Health Care Claim Status Transactions (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section