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• ABCOP/BOC Certification/Accreditation

• Joint Letter from the O&P Alliance to the Orthotic and Prosthetic Profession

• MEDICARE National Provider Identification - NEW

• MEDICARE - Fee Schedule

• HCPCS Information

• MEDICARE - Review Policies

• Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)

• Medicare DMEPOS Information

• MEDICARE - National Supplier Clearinghouse

• National Plan & Provider Ennumeration System (NPPES)
  Assigns standard unique identifiers for health plans

• MEDICARE - Bulletin on Lifetime Expectancy for Breast Prosthesis
  CMS Bulletin on life expectancy of a breast form

• HHS Special Advisory Bulletin
  Guidelines on offering gifts and other inducements to beneficiaries 

• EDI (Billing) Software
  Information on low cost billing software

• Brown & Fortunato, P.C. Health Care Group Catalogue
  Legal heatlh care information.

In August of 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”).  One part of this law, called “Administrative Simplification”, was intended to reduce the administrative cost of health care by standardizing the electronic transmission of certain administrative and financial transactions that are currently submitted on paper.  HIPAA was also designed to provide patients greater protection for privacy of their health information.  There are four parts to HIPAA’s Administrative Simplification provisions:  (1) Electronic Transactions and Code Sets, (2) Security, (3) Unique Identifiers, and (4) Privacy.

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