Looking for a seminar or other help to understand HIPAA administrative

[jeanine]

Help! Can anyone point me in the direction of some good, easy to understand explanation of the HIPAA administrative simplification requirements? I would prefer a seminar, but printed material is OK too.

I have been asked to do an overview of this and set up a plan for one division of our organization. However, the structure of this organization leads to many difficulties. I work for a TPA that is under the corporate umbrella of a health care foundation. Other entities beside the TPA are a hospital, 2 licensed insurance companies, an HMO, a federal HMO, a Medicare plus choice program, provider network, etc. I'm pretty sure some divisions of the foundation have started their own independent analysis and corporate culture does little to encourage coordination among the departments.

[Guest]

I haven't seen any seminars advertised yet, probably because none of the regs are in final form yet. The transaction codes are supposed to come out in final before the end of the month (they'd better hurry!), and the privacy regs, which will require a lot of work on the part of most companies, are reportedly coming out in final in September. There's an excellent website at www.hipaadvisory.com, where you can probably pick up leads to printed info.