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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as “HIPAA,” is a federal law that covers a number of important health care issues, such as providing consumers with greater access to health care insurance, and insuring the privacy of health care data. The law also includes measures designed to reduce administrative costs in the health care industry by providing standards for electronic transactions between the various entities within the industry, such as health care providers and insurers.HIPAA transactions are specialized versions of X12 transactions. As such, a HIPAA document has the same structure and uses the same delimiters as an X12 document. To understand the structure of an X12 document and the use of delimiters in an X12 document, see TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream, X12 Configuration, Chapter 1, "Document Structure and Delimiters."The information in the section on Acknowledgements in TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol powered by Instream, X12 Configuration also applies to HIPAA transactions.Additionally, TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol HIPAA Edition powered by Instream supports application level acknowledgements that are used to provide the validation results on the HIPAA specific business rules for a transaction. For information on these application level acknowledgements that are specific to TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI Protocol HIPAA Edition powered by Instream, see HIPAA Acknowledgement Properties.
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