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Do Not Procrastinate:
NHIC, California’s Medicare carrier, reports that 25 percent of California physicians are sending in their Medicare claims using the new HIPAA-compliant standard transaction formats. As of October 16, all physician practices that employ 10 or more full-time-equivalent employees (including physicians) must bill Medicare electronically. Those electronic billings must be HIPAA-compliant or Medicare will reject them. October 16 is days away. If you (or your billing service) need more information on how to start testing or upgrading your systems to assure your ability to generate HIPAA-compliant claims, visit the HIPAA Resource Center at CMA’s members-only website, http://www.cmanet.org/logon. CMA is continually developing resources to assist members with this transition. There will be a survey in next week’s Alert to solicit input on how CMA might better assist physicians as they convert to HIPAA-compliant billing systems. For more HIPAA information, visit the HIPAA Help Center at http://www.calphys.org. Contact: Nileen Verbeten, 916/551-2036 or nverbeten@cmanet.org.
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