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Excerpt from AANS Bulletin, Summer 2002
| Aug. 21, 1996 | HIPAA becomes law. |
| Dec. 28, 2000 | Final rule "Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information" (Privacy Rule) is published in the Federal Register. |
| Dec. 27, 2001 | The Administrative Simplification Compliance Act becomes law, providing a means by which the administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA may be extended by one year. |
| April 14, 2001 | Effective date for the Privacy Rule. |
| March 27, 2002 | Health and Human Services proposes changes to the Privacy Rule www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/propmods.txt. |
| March 29, 2002 | CMS issues a model compliance plan for filing a one-year extension to comply with the rule governing electronic health care transactions www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/hipaa2/ASCAForm.asp. |
| Oct. 15, 2002 | Date by which a compliance plan for a one-year extension must be postmarked or filed electronically. |
| Oct. 16, 2002 | Original compliance date for Electronic Health Transactions and Code Sets. |
| April 14, 2003 | Compliance date for the Privacy Rule. |
| Oct. 16, 2003 | Compliance date for Electronic Health Transactions and Code Sets for those with a compliance plan filed by Oct. 15, 2002 |
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