Administrative Simplification; Adoption of Standards for Health Care Claims Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signatures

What it does

This final rule implements requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, enacted on March 30, 2010--collectively, the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, this final rule adopts standards for health care claims attachments transactions, which will support health care claims transactions, and a standard for electronic signatures to be used in conjunction with health care claims attachments transactions.

The Health and Human Services Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

2 parts of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

45 CFR 160, 45 CFR 162

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Health and Human Services Department has published 11 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 13 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0938-AT38 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective Date: This final rule is effective on May 26, 2026. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in this rule is approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of May 26, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 45 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register