All the professionals and workers working in the health care industry in America are required to comply with HIPAA standards. This federal law ensures that patients who have a pre-existing condition get the right insurance coverage and are not excluded on these grounds by their health care provider. This law also prevents malpractice by insurance companies and doctors and also provides a savings account for medical purposes. This law was in response to the demand of health industry to shift to electronic transaction standards to help hospitals and other concerns cut cost and increase the security of the medical records of patients. Thus HHS or Department of Health and Human Services created HIPAA standards to control and regulate administrative and financial transaction in medical field. They have created codes for health plans, hospitals, retail pharmacies, nursing homes etc. to ensure security and privacy of identifiable information in medical records of individual. These codes were standardized so that the multiple versions of electronic HCFA 1500 and UB-92 can be replaced. These standards were adopted back in April 2007 and are applicable to all kinds of health plans, clearing houses, hospitals etc. These standards streamline billing and make the inquiries for eligibility and referral authorizations ...

HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act were created to give many rights to an individual regarding his medical records and private identifiable information. HIPAA HHS is abbreviation for Health and Human Services (HHS) which is US Government’s Cabinet department. This department was created to protect health of every American and provide necessary human services to them. The motto of HHS is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". HHS was earlier called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, but was later renamed as Health and Human Service when its education branch was split in 1979 and was transferred to United States Department of Education. This department was proposed in 1923, but could not be implemented at that time. Thirty years in line, Reorganization Plan Number 1 enacted this proposal. In 1979, HHS was made the supervisor of Social Security Administration agencies and it constitutes Family Support Administration and Public Health Service. But in the year 1995, Social Security Administration was also split from HHS and turned into an independent entity. HIPAA HHS is governed by Secretary of Health and Human Service. The Secretary is appointed with the advice and consent of Senate, by the orders of the President. Criminal activities ...