HIPAA Test Review
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1. What does HIPAA Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
stand for?
2. What is HIPAA? 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 Took effect on April 14, 2003.
take effect?
4. What does Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
HIPAA's standards information is used and disclosed
provide patients
with?
5. What were the limiting administrative cost of health care, *privacy issues*, and *preventing
goals that HIPAA fraud* and abuse were of primary importance. The law has also had to *include
was designed for? privacy and confidentiality rules to protect the patient*
6. What did the law Privacy and Confidentiality rules
have to include in
HIPAA to protect
the patient?
7. Why were Privacy To protect the patient
and Confidentiali-
ty rules included
in HIPAA?
8. Who developed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
HIPAA?
9. It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country.
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, HIPAA Test Review
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What was an ad-
vantage of HIPAA?
10. What as not af- State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this
fected by HIPAA? new rule
11. What does HIPAA It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info.,
do? enforce standards for electronic data interchange
12. What are the 5 1. Portability
parts of HIPAA? 2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
13. What is "Portabili- Continuity of coverage access; denial of coverage based on pre-existing condi-
ty"? tions
14. What is "Stan- Of billing of format and language
dardization"?
15. What is "Adminis- Same computer language industry wide
tration Simplifica-
tion"?
16. What is "Account- Same computer language industry wide
ability"?
17. What is "Privacy Oral, written, electronic information management
Protection"?
18. What are the Ben- 1. Uniform billing process
efits of HIPAA? 2. Use of electronic transmittals
3. Continuity in patient care
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_2j6zog
1. What does HIPAA Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
stand for?
2. What is HIPAA? 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 Took effect on April 14, 2003.
take effect?
4. What does Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
HIPAA's standards information is used and disclosed
provide patients
with?
5. What were the limiting administrative cost of health care, *privacy issues*, and *preventing
goals that HIPAA fraud* and abuse were of primary importance. The law has also had to *include
was designed for? privacy and confidentiality rules to protect the patient*
6. What did the law Privacy and Confidentiality rules
have to include in
HIPAA to protect
the patient?
7. Why were Privacy To protect the patient
and Confidentiali-
ty rules included
in HIPAA?
8. Who developed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
HIPAA?
9. It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country.
1/9
, HIPAA Test Review
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_2j6zog
What was an ad-
vantage of HIPAA?
10. What as not af- State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this
fected by HIPAA? new rule
11. What does HIPAA It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info.,
do? enforce standards for electronic data interchange
12. What are the 5 1. Portability
parts of HIPAA? 2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
13. What is "Portabili- Continuity of coverage access; denial of coverage based on pre-existing condi-
ty"? tions
14. What is "Stan- Of billing of format and language
dardization"?
15. What is "Adminis- Same computer language industry wide
tration Simplifica-
tion"?
16. What is "Account- Same computer language industry wide
ability"?
17. What is "Privacy Oral, written, electronic information management
Protection"?
18. What are the Ben- 1. Uniform billing process
efits of HIPAA? 2. Use of electronic transmittals
3. Continuity in patient care
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