Introduction to HIPAA Protocol

This section briefly describes the HIPAA mandated X12 transactions and their use for electronic data interchange (EDI). For a complete description of HIPAA and the mandated X12 transactions, refer to the HIPAA Educational Materials on the CMS website: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/EducationMaterials.

For a complete description of the X12 EDI standard, refer to the standard itself, which can be found at the Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) website: http://www.disa.org.