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HIPAA titles

HIPAA is a legislative act made up of five titles as described below:

• Title I, "Health care access, portability and renewability," employers and health plans must allow a new employee's medical insurance coverage to remain continuous without regard to pre-existing conditions.
  
  
• Title II, "Preventing health care fraud and abuse; administrative simplification; medical liability reform" defines new requirements for privacy and security of individually identifiable patient information.
  
  
• Title II, "Administrative simplification," Subtitle F reduces the administrative component of health care costs through the implementation of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards primarily by embracing ASC X12N transaction formats.
  
  
• Title III, "Tax-related health provisions" standardizes the amount you can save per person in a pre-tax medical savings account.
  
  
• Title IV, "Application and enforcement of group health plan requirements" broadened information on insurance reform provisions and provide detailed explanations.
  
  
• Title V, "Revenue offsets" are regulations on how employers can deduct company-owned life insurance premiums for income tax purposes.

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