Links

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs—two national health care programs that benefit about 75 million Americans. And with the Health Resources and Services Administration, CMS runs the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a program that is expected to cover many of the approximately 10 million uninsured children in the United States.

Healthlinks—Healthlinks is an Internet site that provides the energy, cutting-edge information and networking knowledge of a group of healthcare, Internet and computer experts to bring to you healthcare sites on the World-Wide Web. The core of Healthlinks is their searchable database of over 56,500 links growing at the rate of up to 1% per day. Every link in their database is unique so when searching for a listing, you do not encounter pages of duplicates.

American Medical Association—The AMA is the nation's leader in promoting professionalism in medicine and setting standards for medical education, practice,and ethics.

Virtual Hospital—Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients.

MX City—The most comprehensive online gateway to outpatient reimbursement information. MX City contains thousands of free resources.

Medical Group Management Association—The nation's principal voice for medical group practice.

HIPAA Advisory—Sign up to for an e-mail newsletter to stay in touch with HIPAA healthcare information security issues and developments as they evolve.

HIPAA Comply—A good source for up-to-date information regarding HIPAA security and privacy compliance.

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