Most people don’t get excited about the prospect of filling out more paperwork at the doctor’s office, but Dee Bisel, owner of Lawrence’s Minuteman Press, is thrilled.

Bisel and Bobbette Puderbaugh, Minuteman business manager, have developed forms that comply with the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, which went into effect Monday.

Their efforts have led them and two other partners to form a new Lawrence company, Coordinated Minute, that is expected to produce at least $250,000 a year in sales by providing businesses with the necessary forms to comply with the new regulation.

“It could be phenomenal if we can get a lot of people in the state,” Bisel said of the revenue the new business could generate. “It has unlimited potential for us.”

Coordinated Systems & Supplies Inc., a Wichita-based company, is one of the partners. The company sells a variety of forms to businesses.

“It was a natural fit,” said Tina Neal, vice president of Coordinated Systems & Supplies Inc. “While we’re technically competitors, I realized this venture would be a great collaborative opportunity. Our company deals with medical offices throughout the United States, and we have the means to market and distribute the forms.”

Lawrence attorney Brandy Sutton, the other partner in the venture, proofs the forms. Sutton has been trained in HIPAA compliance.

HIPAA spells out what hospitals, doctor offices, insurance companies and other businesses that deal with medical records must do to protect the privacy of patients.

Under the act, providers must require every patient to read and sign several forms outlining their rights. It also makes health-care providers responsible for inking compliance agreements with anyone who could come into contact with a patient’s records. That means everyone from paper-shredding companies to attorneys could be required to comply with the new regulations.

The owner of Lawrence's Minuteman Press has formed a new business called Coordinated Minute. The new business sells forms to entities that want to comply with the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996. The act went into effect Monday. Some of the forms are printed at Minuteman Press, where Jerry Divine was working Wednesday.

Coordinated Minute produces a simpler form for clients concerned about complying with the rules.

Michelle Barta, chiropractic assistant at Anthony Chiropractic Clinic, 3017 W. Sixth, said the confusing language of the legislation left many health-care companies on shaky ground when trying to become HIPAA compliant.

“You just have no idea what to do,” Barta said.

Coordinated Minute simplified the process by creating color-coded forms that require a minimal amount of clerical work for clients. It also designed the forms to specifically comply with Kansas regulations, since the required forms differ slightly from state to state.

“All I have to do is set out the forms and say, ‘Here they are. Sign this,'” said Barta, who already has ordered and received her HIPAA forms. “It’s a load off my back.”

Coordinated Minute has filled 29 orders for its HIPAA starter kit, which for $199 gives customers 100 copies of each form they’ll need.

Neal said the company already has had several large clients re-order 5,000 to 10,000 copies of the forms. Neal, who is based out of Coordinated Systems’ Lawrence sales office, said she thinks the business will continue to grow.

“Our goal for the first year is to do a quarter-of-a-million dollars in sales, and we think it will get much bigger than that,” said Neal, who estimates there are at least 2,500 health-care companies in Kansas that must comply with the new regulations. “People really found out Monday that these regulations aren’t going to go away, and they don’t have everything they need to comply.”