The CalPSAB has responded to public comments received about the proposed Privacy and Security mission statement, assumptions, principles and definitions. The CalPSAB has adopted these documents and will be forwarding them to the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency for approval. Both the document containing the public comments and responses and the Mission Statement, Assumptions, Principles and Definitions may be found at the following links.

HIPAA-2 Is Coming

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of implementing the proposed next version of HIPAA EDI transactions - referred to as HIPAA-2. The Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA require the Secretary of HHS to adopt standard electronic transactions and code sets for administrative health care transactions. The Secretary may also modify these standards periodically.

CMS expects to implement HIPAA-2 over four quarterly releases for its shared systems. The intent is for CMS to be ready to accept and send HIPAA-2 transactions in a test environment beginning in the spring of 2009. For more information, visit the CMS website.

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For more information about HIPAA, list serves and Federal "Frequently Asked Questions", please visit our Links page.

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