Useful Links
Anesthesia Billing & Compliance
American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
American Health Information Management Association
Search for HIPAA-related cases at BenefitsLink.com
Center for Health Information Management
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – CMS
Medicare Information for Anesthesiologists
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Medical Association – AMA
American Statistical Association – ASA
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists – AANA
American Academy of Professional Coders – AAPC
Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations – JCAHO
Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, which offers materials on HIPAA security accreditation
National Uniform Claim Committee, which works to develop a standardized data set for use by the non-institutional health care community to transmit claim and encounter information to and from all third-party payors
Register for the CMS OCR Privacy and Security listserv
Advisory panel to CMS (formerly HCFA) on technology issues affecting the private sector and Medicaid Management Information System. Links to several papers and articles on HIPAA www.ps-tag.org