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Medicare Program; State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP)
This interim final rule explains the terms and conditions that apply to grants to States for counseling and assistance to Medicare beneficiaries, and makes several minor technical clarifications about program compliance. We also specify our policies regarding the treatment of funds associated with the management of this program, including user...
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Medicare Program; Medicare+Choice Program
This final rule with comment period responds to comments on the June 26, 1998 interim final rule that implemented the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program and makes revisions to those regulations where warranted. We also are making revisions to the regulations that are necessary to reflect the changes to the M+C program resulting from the Balanced...
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Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions
This rule adopts standards for eight electronic transactions and for code sets to be used in those transactions. It also contains requirements concerning the use of these standards by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers. The use of these standard transactions and code sets will improve the Medicare and...
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
This rule includes standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information. The rules below, which apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers, present standards with respect to the rights of individuals who are the subjects of this information, procedures for the exercise of...
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Interim Final Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health Coverage in the Group Market
This document contains interim final rules governing the provisions prohibiting discrimination based on a health factor for group health plans and issuers of health insurance coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. The rules contained in this document implement changes made to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code), the...
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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Bona Fide Wellness Programs
This proposed rule would implement and clarify the term ``bona fide wellness program'' as it relates to regulations implementing the nondiscrimination provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Public Health Service Act, as added by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
This action corrects the effective date of the final rules adopting standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information published on December 28, 2000, in the Federal Register (65 FR 82462), resulting in a new effective date of April 14, 2001. The change in the effective date delays, by operation of law, the compliance dates...
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Interim Final Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health Coverage in the Group Market
Consistent with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled ``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7702), this action delays for 60 days the effective date for the rules entitled ``Interim Final Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health...
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National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Revisions and Additions to the Vaccine Injury Table
The Secretary has made findings as to a condition that can reasonably be determined in some circumstances to be caused by vaccines containing live, oral, rhesus-based rotavirus. Based on these findings, the Secretary proposes to amend the Vaccine Injury Table (Table) by adding to the Table vaccines containing live, oral, rhesus-based rotavirus...
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Medicare Program; Medicare-Endorsed Prescription Drug Card Assistance Initiative
This proposed rule would describe the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Medicare-Endorsed Prescription Drug Card Assistance Initiative, and set forth the necessary requirements to participate in the initiative. This proposed rule also cross-references an advance notice of proposed rulemaking entitled ``Medicare Program;...
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Medicare Program; Modifications to Managed Care Rules Based on Payment Provisions of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, and Technical Corrections
This final rule revises the regulations to reflect changes in the Social Security Act (the Act), enacted in certain sections of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (BIPA), relating to the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program. This final rule only makes conforming changes to the regulations that implement...
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposes to modify certain standards in the Rule entitled ``Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' (the ``Privacy Rule''). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and...
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Health Insurance Reform: Standard Unique Employer Identifier
This final rule establishes a standard for a unique employer identifier and requirements concerning its use by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers. The health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers must use the identifier, among other uses, in connection with certain electronic transactions....
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Health Insurance Reform: Modifications to Standards for Electronic Transactions and Code Sets
This rule proposes to adopt modifications to certain standards for retail pharmacy transactions adopted in our regulations entitled ``Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions'' published in the Federal Register on August 17, 2000 (65 FR 50312), which implemented some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification...
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Health Insurance Reform: Modifications to Transactions and Code Set Standards for Electronic Transactions
This rule proposes to adopt modifications to certain standards adopted in our regulations entitled ``Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions'' published in the Federal Register on August 17, 2000 (65 FR 50312), which implemented some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance...
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National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Revisions and Additions to the Vaccine Injury Table
On July 13, 2001, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing changes to the regulations governing the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Specifically, the Secretary proposed revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table (the Table). The...
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Technical Change to Requirements for the Group Health Insurance Market; Non-Federal Governmental Plans Exempt From HIPAA Title I Requirements
This interim final rule with comment period amends the exemption election requirements that apply to self-funded non-Federal governmental plans. In it, we clarify the circumstances under which plan sponsors may exempt these plans from most of the requirements of title XXVII of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act and provide guidance on the...
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Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (``HHS'' or ``Department'') modifies certain standards in the Rule entitled ``Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' (``Privacy Rule''). The Privacy Rule implements the privacy requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance...
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Medicare Program; Medicare-Endorsed Prescription Drug Card Assistance Initiative
This final rule describes the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Medicare-Endorsed Prescription Drug Card Assistance Initiative, and sets forth the necessary requirements to participate in the initiative.
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Medicare Program; Modifications to Managed Care Rules
This proposed rule would implement certain provisions of the Social Security Act (the Act) relating to the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program that were enacted in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (BIPA). It also proposes other changes to the M+C regulations based on program experience and feedback from...