Research Study Review
Lauren Jones
May 17, 2014
ENGL305
Lisa Burkart-Chalmers

Article Summary
This article discusses the idea of being in compliance with HIPAA transaction standards is reducing the cost of submitting health care claims. At the beginning of 2006, Bob Brown reported that there was little evidence that the administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA had produced any savings in health care costs. However, a new research report indicates that the standards for electronic transactions may be responsible for savings of over $1 billion. (Brown, 2006) Bob Brown relied on the research that he did a few months before to compare his findings about health care claims and saving money on costs of the claims that were being processed at the time of this article. He analyzed both time frames and nearly 25 million claims. He also pulled data from America’s Health Insurance Plan’s (AHIP) Center for Policy and Research for his research too. Although he didn’t look at too many resources, the couple that he used were solid references.
Thesis Statement
The author did his research about being in compliance with HIPAA transaction standards leads to a reduced cost when a health care claim is submitted. He convinced his audience and backed up his data with interesting facts.
Strengths and Limitations
The author did a good job with his research but it was limited. He used information that he already had and added to it. He did look to a couple other researches that were already done. I believe the article could have been stronger if he could have interviewed people himself or used more resources to get all of his research from. He only discussed the information that he had and didn’t include any other forms of research. He defined some terms but not all of them. I think the article was meant for an audience that was already familiar with his