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When the new HIPAA transaction rules go into effect on Oct. 16, your staff must learn to speak a newly standardized coding language and become especially fluent in the codes that reflect problems with a transaction. Once your coders know what these problem codes mean, they'll know where to look on the records to identify and rectify the problem with your payers.
