HIPAA Test Review 2025 Questions and
Answers
What does HIPAA stand for? - --Answer --Health Insurance Portability &
Accountability Act
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.
When did HIPAA take effect? - --Answer --Took effect on April 14, 2003.
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
Who developed HIPAA? - --Answer --Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS)
What as not affected by HIPAA? - --Answer --State laws providing
additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new rule
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 1
,What does HIPAA do? - --Answer --It reduces health care fraud, guarantee
security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce standards for electronic data
interchange
What are the 5 parts of HIPAA? - --Answer --1. Portability
2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
What is "Portability"? - --Answer --Continuity of coverage access; denial of
coverage based on pre-existing conditions
What is "Standardization"? - --Answer --Of billing of format and language
What is "Administration Simplification"? - --Answer --Same computer
language industry wide
What is "Accountability"? - --Answer --Same computer language industry
wide
What is "Privacy Protection"? - --Answer --Oral, written, electronic
information management
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 2
, What are the 6 patients rights of health information? - --Answer --1. Receive
notice of privacy policies
2. Access to health information on file
3. Limit uses and disclosures of medical information
4. Make amendments to medical record
5. Revoke authorizations
6. Have an accounting of info disclosures for up to 6 years
What are the 4 major focus areas HIPAA consists of? - --Answer --1.
Electronic Data Interchange
2. Security
3. Privacy
4. National Identifiers for Health care
What is protected health information? - --Answer --When patients provide
information to their providers they expect only people who are caring for them will
see it and it be used to help care for them
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 3
Answers
What does HIPAA stand for? - --Answer --Health Insurance Portability &
Accountability Act
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.
When did HIPAA take effect? - --Answer --Took effect on April 14, 2003.
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
Who developed HIPAA? - --Answer --Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS)
What as not affected by HIPAA? - --Answer --State laws providing
additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new rule
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 1
,What does HIPAA do? - --Answer --It reduces health care fraud, guarantee
security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce standards for electronic data
interchange
What are the 5 parts of HIPAA? - --Answer --1. Portability
2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
What is "Portability"? - --Answer --Continuity of coverage access; denial of
coverage based on pre-existing conditions
What is "Standardization"? - --Answer --Of billing of format and language
What is "Administration Simplification"? - --Answer --Same computer
language industry wide
What is "Accountability"? - --Answer --Same computer language industry
wide
What is "Privacy Protection"? - --Answer --Oral, written, electronic
information management
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 2
, What are the 6 patients rights of health information? - --Answer --1. Receive
notice of privacy policies
2. Access to health information on file
3. Limit uses and disclosures of medical information
4. Make amendments to medical record
5. Revoke authorizations
6. Have an accounting of info disclosures for up to 6 years
What are the 4 major focus areas HIPAA consists of? - --Answer --1.
Electronic Data Interchange
2. Security
3. Privacy
4. National Identifiers for Health care
What is protected health information? - --Answer --When patients provide
information to their providers they expect only people who are caring for them will
see it and it be used to help care for them
....COPYRIGHT ©️ 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED...TRUSTED & VERIFIED 3
