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Milestones in Health Information Standards

Tentative Schedule for Publication of HIPAA Administrative Simplification Regulations

The Department of Health and Human Services is planning to issue HIPAA regulations under the following schedule. The amount of time from publication of the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to publication of the final rule is needed to review and respond to the large number of comments received on the NPRMs. (For example, we received over 17,000 comments on the Transactions and Coding NPRM alone). Both the logistics of handling that many comments, and the analysis of the issues raised impact on the time it is taking to develop the final rule. In addition, these rules need to be reviewed not only within the Department of Health and Human Services and a number of its subordinate agencies, but also with several other Federal departments affected by the rules.

This schedule is, of course, subject to change due to a number of circumstances.

NPRMs Already Published:

NPRMs in Development:

*Standards are required to be implemented within 2 years of the effective date of the final rule; generally 60 days after publication of the rule. However, the effective date for the National Provider Identifier is planned to be no earlier than 7/2000, to give the Department enough time to develop the system for implementing the identifier.

Last updated 8/17/2000.

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