US Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA-related linksHIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Under HIPAA, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible for implementing more than one provision. When visting the Department's web site, there is a considerable amount of information. Transactions and Code Sets, Privacy, Security, & Identifier Standards This link: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/ is to the CMS page providing additional links to the resources found on the CMS site concerning the Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA. |