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Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions

VIII. Interaction with Privacy

The Secretary has developed this rule in conjunction with the development of standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information, including information that will be transmitted pursuant to these transaction standards. Compliance with the privacy standards will be required at approximately the same time as the compliance dates of this rule. If the privacy standards are substantially delayed, or if Congress fails to adopt comprehensive and effective privacy standards that supercede the standards we are developing, we would seriously consider suspending the application of the transaction standards or taking action to withdraw this rule.

[1] The SBA size standard for computer software related industries (SIC 7371-7379) is $18.0 million or less. Between 81% and 99% of the companies in these categories qualify.

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