title: Simplification at last?
abstract: The HIPAA transaction standards-meant to streamline financial and administrative transactions--have instead devolved into a kind of free-for-all. Now the first operating rules are in hand to standardize use of the standards and gain the efficiencies originally intended.
authors.affiliation: chris.dimick@ahima.org
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dimick
mesh_terms: D004469:Economics, Hospital; D004496:Education, Continuing; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States