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45 CFR Parts 160, 162, and 164
[CMS-0049-F]
RIN 0938-AI57
 Health Insurance Reform:
Security Standards
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: This final rule adopts standards
for the security of electronic protected health information to be
implemented by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and
certain health care providers. The use of the security standards
will improve the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and other Federal
health programs and private health programs, and the effectiveness
and efficiency of the health care industry in general by
establishing a level of protection for certain electronic health
information. This final rule implements some of the requirements
of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
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