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	The following sites can be of assistance to you in understanding, or further researching a variety of healthcare industry issues concerning billing regulations and compliance:

	http://www.ama-assn.org AMA home page

	http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/edi/edi.htm The electronic data interchange (EDI) home page for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) web site. Also see www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa

	http://www.medicareinfo.com This is a detailed site with a variety of information concerning the Medicare program.

	http://www.wpc-edi.com/hipaa This is the links to the Washington Publishing Company web site, which contains all of the implementation guides, data conditions and the data dictionary for the version 4010 transaction implementation guides. The implementation guides can be downloaded free of charge.

	http://www.hcfa.gov This is the site for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Programs.

	http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp This site links to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the administrative simplification provision of HIPAA. The site includes general information about the administrative simplification law, an explanation of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) process, update on when HIPAA standards may be implemented and presentations made by parties regarding HIPAA.

	http://www.nih.gov/health National Institute of Health

	http://www.cdc.goc/cdc.html The Center for Disease Control and Prevention

	http://www.nasbo.org National Association of State Budget Officers

	http://www.aphsa.org American Public Human Services Association

	http://www.disa.org The Data Interchange Standards Associations' (DISA) site that contains information on X12N subcommittees, task groups and workgroups, including meeting minutes. This site will also contain the test conditions and results of HIPAA transactions tested at the workgroup level.

	http://www.hipaadvisory.com Phoenix Health Systems site devoted to HIPAA news. Free newsletter and discussion groups.

	http://www.hsfo.org National Association of State Human Services Finance Officers

	http://www.ncsl.org National Conference of State Legislatures

	http://www.wedi.org WEDI, the workgroup for electronic data interchange, uses this site to list conferences on HIPAA topics and lists the availability of resources of standard transactions.

	http://www.nucc.org This is the National Uniform Claims Committee (NUCC) site containing information on non-institutional claim submission. This group is one of the associations involved in data definition and is part of the data content committee.

	http://www.nubc.org This is the site created by the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC), contains standards for institutional claims. NUBC is another member of the data content committee.

	http://www.healthlaw.org National Health Law Program

	http://www.med-source.com/lifeline/root.html Lifelines Medical Journal

	http://www.nejm.org The New England Journal of Medicine

	http://www.HFMA.org The Healthcare Financial Management Association

	http://www.aha.org/hipaa/hipaa_home.asp The American Hospital Association site containing specific HIPAA standards of specific use to Hospitals.