# Health Insurance Reform: Standard Unique Employer Identifier
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2002-05-31 · Effective 2002-07-30 · 67 FR 38009
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-13616
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 38009
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 160
- **Publication date:** 2002-05-31
- **Effective date:** 2002-07-30
- **HHS docket:** CMS-0047-F
## Abstract

This final rule establishes a standard for a unique employer identifier and requirements concerning its use by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers. The health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers must use the identifier, among other uses, in connection with certain electronic transactions. The use of this identifier will improve the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and other Federal health programs and private health programs, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care industry in general, by simplifying the administration of the system and enabling the efficient electronic transmission of certain health information. It will implement some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/05/31/02-13616/health-insurance-reform-standard-unique-employer-identifier)
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