PTP Final Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+

PTP Final Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+ True or False: HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act True True or False: The goal of HIPAA is to allow facilities to establish their own policies and procedures for the protection of "protected health information". False What is the goal of HIPAA? To establish a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information. It addresses the use and disclosure of individuals PHI. True or False: Under HIPAA the covered entities include health plans, health care providers, health care clearinghouses, and health care surrogates. False What are covered entities under HIPAA? Health plans (insurance), healthcare providers and healthcare clearinghouses Entities that process nonstandard information they receive from another entity into a standard or vice verse. Healthcare Clearinghouses Potential uses of de-identified health information includes Research study analysis and data gathering to determine demographic information of a clinic Patient data that neither identifies nor provides a reasonable basis to identify an individual and may be used for billing insurance companies, research study analysis, and data to determine demographic information of a clinic De-identifiable health information Allowable reasons to use and disclose protected health information, without an individuals authorization include To the individual, uses and disclosures with opportunity to agree or object, incidental use and disclosure, public interest and benefit activities, and limited data set The organization responsible for the enforcement of Standard for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information is The Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights The potential fines associated with a violation of HIPAA can be Up to $100 to $50,000 or more per violation and maximum of $1,500,000 for the calendar year The patient continues to progress toward STG's Assessment PROM R elbow flex. 80 degrees; ext. 10 degrees Objective Pt. performed ankle pumps BIL 3 sets of 10 with rest in between each set Objective The patient's nurse reported he has a history of a DVT LLE 6 months ago Subjective Pt. would benefit from referral to neurologist to assess HA's Assessment Continue therapeutic exercise program TIW, increasing resistance from 3# to 5# next visit Plan The pts husband reported that pt. fell last night trying to get OOB. Subjective Pt. received ice pack x10 minutes to BIL upper trapezius muscles followed by gentle cervical PROM and then AROM for cervical flex/ext and lat. flex BIL x 15 reps. each. Objective Significant decrease in LUE swelling as evidenced by decreased circumferential measurements Assessment The patient is ready to begin resistive exercises for RLE