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07-25-2015, 08:37 AM
It doesn't matter what the laws actually say, they make things up anyway.
Take the story of HIPPA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Notice the word in there "portability".
In the early 90's when electronic transfer of any data was underway, old 28K modems if you can remember - 9 hours to move a 10 mb file.
Anyway, healthcare claims were being transmitted then. You had hundreds of insurance and government agencies, medicare, etc. all building unique systems. A doctor who wanted to send to all of them was in trouble.
So from that was born the Electronic Claims Clearinghouse. I worked for one. The doctor could send to us in a single format and we translated to the others for him.
Then the government decided that was not good enough and said everyone should send the same way, hence the "portability" part.
Of course, this cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars, and some of my hair, making these changes.
So after the law was passed and we did our work, we woke up one day and found a myriad of things blamed on HIPPA that had nothing to do with it. When you go to a medical facility now and fill out some paperwork, etc. and are told it is because of HIPPA, that simply is not true. They made all that stuff up later and had nothing to do with what was passed.
Take the story of HIPPA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Notice the word in there "portability".
In the early 90's when electronic transfer of any data was underway, old 28K modems if you can remember - 9 hours to move a 10 mb file.
Anyway, healthcare claims were being transmitted then. You had hundreds of insurance and government agencies, medicare, etc. all building unique systems. A doctor who wanted to send to all of them was in trouble.
So from that was born the Electronic Claims Clearinghouse. I worked for one. The doctor could send to us in a single format and we translated to the others for him.
Then the government decided that was not good enough and said everyone should send the same way, hence the "portability" part.
Of course, this cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars, and some of my hair, making these changes.
So after the law was passed and we did our work, we woke up one day and found a myriad of things blamed on HIPPA that had nothing to do with it. When you go to a medical facility now and fill out some paperwork, etc. and are told it is because of HIPPA, that simply is not true. They made all that stuff up later and had nothing to do with what was passed.
Take the story of HIPPA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Notice the word in there "portability".
In the early 90's when electronic transfer of any data was underway, old 28K modems if you can remember - 9 hours to move a 10 mb file.
Anyway, healthcare claims were being transmitted then. You had hundreds of insurance and government agencies, medicare, etc. all building unique systems. A doctor who wanted to send to all of them was in trouble.
So from that was born the Electronic Claims Clearinghouse. I worked for one. The doctor could send to us in a single format and we translated to the others for him.
Then the government decided that was not good enough and said everyone should send the same way, hence the "portability" part.
Of course, this cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars, and some of my hair, making these changes.
So after the law was passed and we did our work, we woke up one day and found a myriad of things blamed on HIPPA that had nothing to do with it. When you go to a medical facility now and fill out some paperwork, etc. and are told it is because of HIPPA, that simply is not true. They made all that stuff up later and had nothing to do with what was passed.