Useful Industry Links

The following links are provided for your convenience.  We hope you find them useful.

• IFEBP (International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans)

• SIIA (Self-Insurance Institute of America)

• HCAA (Health Care Administrators Association) HCAA is the resource for education, information and connection among health care administrators

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  (HIPAA Regulations)

• Washington Publishing Company (HIPAA-EDI documentation and implementation guides

• WEDI/SNIP (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange)

• The Accredited Standards Committee ASC (ASC X12 and XML standards)

• EMDEON (major EDI provider)

• THIN (The Health Information Network)

• http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii  National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) This is a comprehensive knowledge-based network of interoperable systems capable of providing information for sound decisions about health when and where needed.  This is a repository for health care information including Electronic Medical Record, test results, and prescription history.  This is NOT a central database of medical records.

• www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa HIPAA Privacy Rule – Office of Civil Rights

• www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2  National Provider Identifier

• www.eeoc.gov Americans with Disability Act Information

• www.cms.hhs.gov/mmu Subsidies for Sponsors of Retiree Drug Programs

• www.treas.gov Information on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)                   Submit questions to:  hsainfo@do.treas.gov

• www.ebia.com Employee Benefits Institute of America Inc. Employee Benefits Reference Manuals

• AdminiSource (provides data, web, print & mail outsourcing services.)

• Microsoft (SQL Database)

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