On August 21, 1996, Congress signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 into law. The overall purpose of HIPAA is to develop and adopt requirements and standards that will improve the efficiency, security and effectiveness of health care administration.

HIPAA has been noted as the most significant health care legislation since the passage of Medicare in 1965. Providers, Payers, clearinghouses and their vendors see the implementation of HIPAA as one of the largest challenges facing them during the next five years. Optimally, emerging solutions must focus on providing technology that will seamlessly integrate with existing systems. This results in an immediate ROI based on hard costs savings by leveraging the HIPAA transaction stream to reduce the number of vendor relationships and connections.

All of CrossCurrent's service offerings support HIPAA standard transactions including Institutional, Professional, and Dental Health care Claims using ANSI X12 837 version 4010 standards. It also includes transactions for Electronic Remittance Advice, Real-Time Eligibility, Claims Status, Contract Management, and Referrals.

CrossCurrent takes HIPAA Privacy and Security seriously. We continue to implement and follow-up with policies and procedures for the Privacy regulations that went into effect on April 16, 2003. CrossCurrent uses industry best practices security technologies to protect the Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) we process and has implemented Security "best practices", meeting the requirements of the final HIPAA Security Rule within the deadline of April 21, 2005.

Should you have questions, please direct them to:

CrossCurrent, Inc.
Attn: HIPAA Compliance Officer
PO Box 1477
Portland, OR 97207