National Association of Chain Drug Stores filed 1 comment on this docket between Oct 22, 2008 and Oct 22, 2008. 33 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 6489d ago.
Attached please find the comments from NACDS on the proposed rule. NACDS is concerned with the service disruption to patients that could result from the accelerated timeline that CMS has proposed in this rule. It is essential that the timeline be revised to include adequate time for development, testing, training, and a transition period to ensure that patients are able to continue to receive needed medications.
This rule proposes to adopt updated versions of the standards for electronic transactions originally adopted in the regulations entitled, “Health Insurance Reform: Standards for Electronic Transactions,” published in the Federal Register on August 17, 2000 (65 FR 50312), which implemented some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). These standards were modified in our rule entitled, “Health Insurance Reform: Modifications to Electronic Data Transaction Standards and Code Sets,” published in the Federal Register on February 20, 2003. This rule also proposes the adoption of a transaction standard for Medicaid Pharmacy Subrogation. In addition, this rule proposes to adopt two standards for billing retail pharmacy supplies and professional services, and to clarify who the “senders” and “receivers” are in the descriptions of certain transactions.
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