Most Popular Stories
- WA collection agency sued for possible charity care law violation
- Economic stimulus may send $100B-plus to healthcare
- Nurse shortage expected to extend over next seven years
- HHS releases new infection-control action plan
- SPOTLIGHT: World Privacy Forum sounds alarm over PHR services
- Economic stimulus may send $100B-plus to healthcare
Featured Jobs
-
Missouri Pain Mgmt
StaffPointe, LLC - southeast , MO -
Florida Nephrologist
StaffPointe, LLC - central , FL -
Ohio Internal Medicine
StaffPointe, LLC - south central , OH -
Kansas Interventional Cardiologist
StaffPointe, LLC - north central , KS -
Michigan Orthopedics
StaffPointe, LLC - north central , MI
Events
- National Health Policy Conference (NHPC)
Feb 2-3, 2009 — Washington, DC - CIO Healthcare Summit
May 10-13 — Scottsdale, AZ - Four Seasons - Healthcare Conference at Harvard Business School on January 17, 2009
Paid Research Reports
- Stakeholder Opinions: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Adverse events with drug-eluting stents demand a new safety standard
- Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Public Healthcare Policy
- The Cardiovascular Disorders Market Outlook to 2012
- 2008 Trends to Watch: Pharmaceutical Technology
- Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement: Strategies for market access across the US, Europe, Japan and other key geographies
- Emerging markets series: Benchmarking key countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and Turkey
Free Newsletter
FierceHealthIT is the leading source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas. Join 25,000+ healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthIT via weekly email for their must know IT news. Sign up today!
About | View Sample | Privacy
Latest News
Popular Topics
Whitepapers
- Disaster Preparedness: Wireless Communication in Hospital Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
- Smart Card Applications in the U.S. Healthcare Industry
- Redesigning Patient Flow
- HIPAA Compliance and Smart Cards: Solutions to Privacy and Security Requirements
- Can a National Healthcare Information Network Work?
- Palm Valley Health Care finds the right support Rx for smartphones
HHS supports both standard approaches for e-prescribing
So, HHS has been raising hackles all around of late, in part due to the rough kickoff of the National Provider Identifier requirement, and partly due to its proposal that providers switch over to ICD-10 coding within a few years. Now, it's taking on standards for e-prescribing transaction coding, and this time around, at least, it seems a bit more accommodating.
The agency has proposed that two widely-used standards for billing pharmacy-related professional services and supplies should both be allowed for use. It notes that such a compromise is the best way to handle the situation, given that neither of the two have full support of the players involved and HIPAA's transaction and code set requirements needs use of both for certain elements.
The two standards include the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs standard D.0. and the transaction set developed by the Accredited Standards Committee, its X12 837. Right now, HIPAA requires NCPDP's version 5.1 standard for billing of retail pharmacy claims for items such as prescription drugs, while requiring X12 837 for billing of supplies like syringes, inhalers and nebulizers.
To learn more about HHS's compromise:
- read this Modern Healthcare article (reg. req.)
Related Stories
- BCBS Association says new ICD-10 deadline is 'unworkable'
- Study: Few hospitals offering subsidized EMRs
- Feds outline Medicare incentives for e-prescribing
- DEA releases e-prescribing regs for controlled drugs
- GAO says HHS isn't protecting medical data privacy adequately
- Groups challenge DEA rule on e-prescribing controlled substances
- $18.9M for safety-net providers to tap EMRs, IT
- AHA, Premier back ICD-10 adoption plan
- MDs get 5.1 percent bump for Medicare for e-prescribing
- CCHIT plans to incorporate HHS framework for PHRs
Comments
Post new comment
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | Mobile Edition | RSS |
Privacy
| Site MapTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceSarbox | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceBiotech | FierceBioResearcher | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceVoIP | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe© 2008 FierceMarkets, Inc. All rights reserved. |
![]() |





