Useful Links

The ACE team is fortuante to have elite and expert partners within our anesthesia community!

American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine www.asra.com/

Links to numerous articles on HIPAA related cases www.benefitslink.com/buzz/topics/headlines/hipaa.shtml

Center for Health Information Management www.chim.org

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – CMS www.cms.hhs.gov/home/medicare.asp

Medicare Information for Anesthesiologists www.cms.hhs.gov/center/anesth.asp

American Society of Anesthesiologists www.asahq.org

CCI Edits www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalCorrectCodInitEd/

American Medical Association – AMA www.ama-assn.org/

Office of Inspector General www.oig.hhs.gov/

American Statistical Association – ASA www.amstat.org/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – CMS www.cms.hhs.gov/

American Association of Nurse Anesthetists-AANA www.aana.com/

American Academy of Professional Coders-AAPC www.aapc.com

Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations-JCAHO www.jcaho.org/

Home page of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, which offers materials on HIPAA security accreditation www.ehnac.org

Links to HIPAA resources and news www.hipaainfo.net

Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations-JCAHO www.jcaho.org/

Home page of the 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 www.nucc.org

Register for HIPAA Compliance Alert’s HIPAA listserv www.privacyhealth.net

Advisory panel to CMS (formerly HCFA) on technology issues affecting the private sector and Medicaid Management Information System. Links to several paper and articles on HIPAA  www.ps-tag.org