| Subject: | CMS Clarifies HIPAA Applicability to Credit Card Transactions |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Mon, 5 Nov 2007 - 06:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently clarified HIPAA standard applicability to credit card transactions. Apparently questions have arisen about when an individual (i.e., a subscriber or a patient) uses his or her credit or debit card to pay for premiums, deductibles and/or co-payments whether or not that that "transaction" is considered a HIPAA standard, and therefore must it be in a HIPAA compliant format with HIPAA compliant content. According... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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