Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Regulations
July 1, 2019
To reduce paperwork and streamline business processes across the health care system, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 and subsequent legislation set national standards for electronic transactions, code sets, unique identifiers and operating rules. This regulation text was published in 2013 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.