Ravi: Here are the answers to your questions.
1. It(CERTIFICATION) is NOT reuired at all, for Transactions, Codesets, or Privacy but it is reuired for Security. 2. Usually not-for-profit organisations are the certifying agencies. In the HIPAA worls, there is NO such thing called "Ceritifying Vendor", since nobody certified them to be the certifying authority. They are all Validation vendors, basically, no matter what they say... 3. Since nobody can really give any certificate to hang on the wall, there is no liability and yes the other party can reject it. 4. The organisation that generated the transaction. 5. Again there is NO such thing called 'certifying vendor' and am sure they (validation vendors) asnwers their own answers for this. 6. Penalty is complAInt driven and the provider has to compAIn for not being paid for a complIAnt transaction and again the non-existing "certirying vendors" ;-) can't be held responsible in case there was a complAInt made. The above answers are the best of my knowledge. Hope this helps. Regards, --Rama. -----Original Message----- From: "Ravi Jha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:15:27 -0500 To: "WEDI SNIP Testing Subworkgroup List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VALIDATION or Certification Requirement, Vendor and Penalty Hi, Can any one clear my doubts. 1. Why is a certification required at all? 2. While choosing certifying vendor, what are the points one should note? 3. Do the certificates have any legal importance, so if one is certified for one Transaction (say 837 I) then other party can not reject it saying its non HIPAA? 4. After certification for any Transaction, if it is found that it is not. Who is going to take the responsibility, the certifying organization or the organization who has generated the Transaction? 5. What type of guarantee do the certifying vendors give? 6. Is there any penalty for the organizations who claims to be HIPAA compliant and found not? so if there is any penalty then who is going to pay for it? thanks Ravi Jha --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-testing as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. The discussions on this listserv therefore represent the views of the individual participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the WEDI Board of Directors nor WEDI SNIP. If you wish to receive an official opinion, post your question to the WEDI SNIP Issues Database at http://snip.wedi.org/tracking/. These listservs should not be used for commercial marketing purposes or discussion of specific vendor products and services. They also are not intended to be used as a forum for personal disagreements or unprofessional communication at any time. You are currently subscribed to wedi-testing as: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, go to the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org or send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to unsubscribe but your current email address is not the same as the address subscribed to the list, please use the Subscribe/Unsubscribe form at http://subscribe.wedi.org
