Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications

Chapter Review

As you have seen, there are numerous steps and potential roadblocks on the path to payment for physician practices. The federal government has done its part by crafting a broad set of administrative simplification standards aimed at streamlining the claims revenue cycle. HIPAA, enacted in 1996, was the first of these efforts, leading to a wide array of privacy and security provisions designed to safeguard a patient’s health information, national identification numbers, and the standardization of a number of critical electronic transactions such as the claim, eligibility verification, and remittance advice. A voluntary industry effort started in 2006 to enhance the usefulness of electronic transactions led to the development of ...