WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- AUGUST 4, 2003: HIPAAAudioconferences.com announced today a National HIPAA Audioconferences on Strategies in Responding to the CMS Contingency Guidance for Covered Entities Regarding the Enforcement of the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets which will take place on Thursday, August 14, 2003.

• 1:00 pm Audioconference Check in and Introduction
• 1:05 pm Overview of Audioconference by the Moderator
  Alan Goldberg, JD, LLM
• 1:10 pm Overview of CMS Guidance
  Steven Lazarus, Ph.D.
• 1:20 pm Will There be a Train Wreck on October 16, 2003?
  Kepa Zubeldia, MD
• 1:30 pm Strategic Alternatives and Contingency Planning in Response to the CMS Guidance
  Dan Petrosky
• 1:40 pm Payor Responses to the CMS Guidance
  Jim Daley
• 1:55 pm Provider Responses to the CMS Guidance
  Lawrence A. Hughes, Esq.
• 2:10 pm Questions and Comments
• 2:30 pm Audioconference Adjournment

• Jim Daley, HIPAA Program Director, HIPAA Program Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Member, WEDI Executive Committee and Chair, WEDI Information Exchange and Management Committee, Columbia, SC
• Lawrence A. Hughes, Esq., Director of Member Relations and Special Counsel, American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL
• Steven S. Lazarus, Ph.D., FHIMSS, President, Boundary Information Group, Immediate Past Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO
• Dan Petrosky, Vice-President, Education Service Group, Founding Member, EDI Partners (a business Unit of ICC), Minneapolis, MN
• Kepa Zubeldia, MD, President and CEO, Claredi Corp., and Vice Chair, AFEHCT and WEDI Security Policy Advisory Group, Kaysville, UT
• Alan S. Goldberg, JD, LLM, Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Adjunct Professor, Suffolk University Law School and University of Maryland School of Law, Moderator, AHLA HIT Listserve, AND Director, ABA Health Law Section HIPAA & State Law Project, Washington DC (Moderator)

• To set forth strategies in HIPAA transactions and code sets implementation
• To construe CMS Contingency Guidance for Covered Entities Regarding the Enforcement of the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets
• To define reasonable and diligent efforts to become compliant and, in the case of health plans, to facilitate the compliance of their trading partners
• To assess implications of CMS complaint-driven process to enforce the provisions

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Only HIPAA Summit Audioconferences offer 11 types of continuing education credit that can be applied for and approved online. The Following Extensive CEs: AAPC; ACCME; ACHE; ACMPE; ACPE; AHIMA; ANCC; CISSP/SSCP; HIMSS, HCCB; MCLE; and NASBA.

The Audioconference Registration Fee is $225 per Site. No limit to number of attendees per site.

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