HIPAA Test Review Questions and Answers
1. What does HIPAA stand for?
Answer Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
2. What is HIPAA?
Answer Federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information
provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
3. When did HIPAA take effect?
Answer Took effect on April 14, 2003.
4. What does HIPAA's standards provide patients with?
Answer Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
information is used and disclosed
5. What were the goals that HIPAA was designed for?
Answer limiting administrative cost of health care, *privacy issues*, and *preventing fraud*
and abuse were of primary importance. The law has also had to *include privacy and confidentiality
rules to protect the patient*
6. What did the law have to include in HIPAA to protect the patient?
Answer Privacy and
Confidentiality rules
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, 7. Why were Privacy and Confidentiality rules included in HIPAA?
Answer To protect the patient
8. Who developed HIPAA?
Answer Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
9. What was an advantage of HIPAA?
Answer It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country.
10. What as not affected by HIPAA?
Answer State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this
new rule
11. What does HIPAA do?
Answer It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce
standards for electronic data interchange
12. What are the 5 parts of HIPAA?
Answer 1. Portability
2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
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1. What does HIPAA stand for?
Answer Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
2. What is HIPAA?
Answer Federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information
provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
3. When did HIPAA take effect?
Answer Took effect on April 14, 2003.
4. What does HIPAA's standards provide patients with?
Answer Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
information is used and disclosed
5. What were the goals that HIPAA was designed for?
Answer limiting administrative cost of health care, *privacy issues*, and *preventing fraud*
and abuse were of primary importance. The law has also had to *include privacy and confidentiality
rules to protect the patient*
6. What did the law have to include in HIPAA to protect the patient?
Answer Privacy and
Confidentiality rules
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, 7. Why were Privacy and Confidentiality rules included in HIPAA?
Answer To protect the patient
8. Who developed HIPAA?
Answer Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
9. What was an advantage of HIPAA?
Answer It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country.
10. What as not affected by HIPAA?
Answer State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this
new rule
11. What does HIPAA do?
Answer It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce
standards for electronic data interchange
12. What are the 5 parts of HIPAA?
Answer 1. Portability
2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
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