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t <br /> What's HIPAA?-A Basic HIPAA Primer 08/25/2006 09:01 PM <br /> S&10%rya <br /> HIP. . re S <br /> HIPAAdvisory > HIPAAreas > HIPAA Primer <br /> HIPAA Primer <br /> Updated July 2005 <br /> • Leam more about HIPAA with our audio conferences, books, and other com fiance <br /> tools. <br /> • How Did We Get HIPAA?.O Health Data Management magazine's March 2003 10th <br /> anniversary issue includes a history of HIPAA, explaining how the mandates now before the <br /> industry came to be. <br /> WHAT IS HIPAA? <br /> "HIPAA" is an acronym Ifor the Health Insurance Portability &Accountability Act of 1996(August21), <br /> Public Law 104-191, which amended the Internal Revenue.Service Code of 1986. Also known as the <br /> Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, the Act includes a section, Titre II, entitled Administrative Simplification, <br /> requiring: <br /> 1. Improved efficiency in'healthcare delivery by standardizing electronic data interchange, and <br /> 2. Protection of confidentiality and security of health data through setting and enforcing standards. <br /> More specifically, HIPAA called upon the Department of Health and Human Services(HHS) to publish <br /> new rules that will ensure: <br /> 1. Standardization of electronic patient health, administrative and.financial data <br /> 2. Unique health identifiers for individuals, employers, health plans and health care providers <br /> 3. Security standards protecting the confidentiality and integrity of"individually identifiable health <br /> information," past, present or future. <br /> • The bottom line: svileeping changes in most healthcare transaction and administrative <br /> information systems. <br /> Who is affected? <br /> Virtually all healthcare organizations—including all heaffficare providers, health plans, public health <br /> authorities, healthcare clearinghouses, and self-ensured employers—as well as life insurers, <br /> information systems vendors, various service organizations, and universities. <br /> Are there penalties? <br /> HIPAA calls for severe civil and criminal penalties for non-compliance, including: <br /> —fines up to$25K for multiple violations of the same standard in a calendar year <br /> —fines up to $250K and/or imprisonment up to 10 years for knowing misuse of <br /> individually identifiable health information <br /> Compliance deadlines? <br /> http://www.hipaadvisory.com/REQS/HIPAAprimer.htm Page 1 of 4 <br />