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Federal health plan ID not as needed as ICD-10 | Government Health IT 

November 03, 2014 | Anthony Brino, Associate Editor



All HIPAA-covered health organizations, and especially insurers, have been handed a small victory in the war of administrative simplification, as federal regulators once again back off a policy change long in the making.



The Department of Health and Human Services is delaying enforcement, until further notice, of health plan enumeration and the unique health plan identifier system, regulations stemming from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that were finalized in the fall of 2012 and set to take effect in the coming years.



The agency’s decision comes after an HHS advisory board, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, recommended not requiring a new ID system in administrative transactions.



In September, the NCHVS told the agency it should “rectify in rulemaking that all covered entities not use the HPID in the HIPAA transactions,” over concerns of the operating standard’s costs and benefits among healthcare payers, providers and HIPAA-covered technology purveyors.



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