# Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2003-02-20 · Effective 2003-04-21 · 68 FR 8334
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-3877
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 8334
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 160
- **Publication date:** 2003-02-20
- **Effective date:** 2003-04-21
- **HHS docket:** CMS-0049-F
## Abstract

This final rule adopts standards for the security of electronic protected health information to be implemented by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers. The use of the security standards will improve the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and otherFederal health programs and private health programs, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care industry in general by establishing a level of protection for certain electronic health information. This final rule implements some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/02/20/03-3877/health-insurance-reform-security-standards)
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