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January 2012
new AUC launches enhanced website

The Minnesota AUC website has been redesigned to ease navigation for visitors and the AUC membership. Features include:
  • Consolidation of the following resources into singular locations
    • Minnesota uniform companion guides
    • AUC best practices
    • Minnesota community coding recommendations
    • Forms

  • Provision of additional links to state, federal, and national administrative simplification information and resources

January 2012
new AUC announces its accomplishments for 2011

Highlights include:
  • Developing and maintaining v5010 of the Minnesota Uniform Companion Guides
  • Providing testimony and comments for national administrative simplification initiatives
For more information, see accomplishment overviews for January-June 2011 (PDF: 20 pages), and July-December 2011 (PDF: 14 pages).

November 28, 2011

AUC testifies at NCVHS hearing

AUC comments to NCVHS (PDF: 21 pages)
The Minnesota AUC submitted comments to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) for consideration during its November 2011 meeting regarding:
  • Enrollment of health care providers by health plans;
  • Standardized claim coding;
  • Claims attachments;
  • Applicability of standards to other insurance types; and
  • The need for a single overarching umbrella organization to manage standards and operating rule maintenance/modifications.
The AUC’s comments are available to the public as a PDF or online at http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/111118pres.htm under “Public Comment View Handout #3”.


September 6, 2011

AUC submits comments on operating rules to CMS

AUC comments to HHS (PDF: 36 pages)
The Minnesota AUC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding “Administrative Simplification: Adoption of Operating Rules for Eligibility for a Health Plan and Health Care Claim Status Transactions (CMS-0032-IFC)”. In its comments, the AUC:

  • Offered its support for the Eligibility for a Health Plan operating rules and provided recommendations to take fullest advantage of the transaction’s capabilities;
  • Communicated several concerns and recommendations regarding maintenance and modifications to transaction standards and operating rules; and
  • Supported the adoption of acknowledgment transactions requirements.

The AUC’s comments are available to the public as a PDF or online at www.regulations.gov


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