HIPAA Test Review with Accurate
Solutions
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act - ANSWER-What does HIPAA stand
for?
Federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health
information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
- ANSWER-What is HIPAA?
Took effect on April 14, 2003. - ANSWER-When did HIPAA take effect?
Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
information is used and disclosed - ANSWER-What does HIPAA's standards provide
patients with?
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* - ANSWER-What were the goals that HIPAA
was designed for?
Privacy and Confidentiality rules - ANSWER-What did the law have to include in HIPAA
to protect the patient?
To protect the patient - ANSWER-Why were Privacy and Confidentiality rules included
in HIPAA?
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - ANSWER-Who developed HIPAA?
It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country. -
ANSWER-What was an advantage of HIPAA?
State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new
rule - ANSWER-What as not affected by HIPAA?
It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce
standards for electronic data interchange - ANSWER-What does HIPAA do?
1. Portability
2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
, 4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection - ANSWER-What are the 5 parts of HIPAA?
Continuity of coverage access; denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions -
ANSWER-What is "Portability"?
Of billing of format and language - ANSWER-What is "Standardization"?
Same computer language industry wide - ANSWER-What is "Administration
Simplification"?
Same computer language industry wide - ANSWER-What is "Accountability"?
Oral, written, electronic information management - ANSWER-What is "Privacy
Protection"?
1. Uniform billing process
2. Use of electronic transmittals
3. Continuity in patient care
4. Employment opportunities-HIPAA officers, Office of Civil Rights expanded, fraud
squads, hotlines
5. Violation of confidentiality now a federal crime !!! - ANSWER-What are the Benefits of
HIPAA?
1. Patient's expectations of privacy and confidentiality are important to providing quality
care
2. Affects all aspects of care: hospitals, outpatient, diagnostic, or the business office
3. Laws have increased in strength in response to situations in which private information
has ended up in the wrong hands - ANSWER-Why is privacy and confidentiality
important?
1. Protects the privacy and the security of individually identifiable health information
2. Establishes the 6 patient rights of health information - ANSWER-What does the
privacy rule do?
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 - ANSWER-What are the 6
patients rights of health information?
1. Electronic Data Interchange
2. Security
Solutions
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act - ANSWER-What does HIPAA stand
for?
Federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health
information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
- ANSWER-What is HIPAA?
Took effect on April 14, 2003. - ANSWER-When did HIPAA take effect?
Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
information is used and disclosed - ANSWER-What does HIPAA's standards provide
patients with?
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* - ANSWER-What were the goals that HIPAA
was designed for?
Privacy and Confidentiality rules - ANSWER-What did the law have to include in HIPAA
to protect the patient?
To protect the patient - ANSWER-Why were Privacy and Confidentiality rules included
in HIPAA?
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - ANSWER-Who developed HIPAA?
It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country. -
ANSWER-What was an advantage of HIPAA?
State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new
rule - ANSWER-What as not affected by HIPAA?
It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce
standards for electronic data interchange - ANSWER-What does HIPAA do?
1. Portability
2. Standardization
3. Administration Simplification
, 4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection - ANSWER-What are the 5 parts of HIPAA?
Continuity of coverage access; denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions -
ANSWER-What is "Portability"?
Of billing of format and language - ANSWER-What is "Standardization"?
Same computer language industry wide - ANSWER-What is "Administration
Simplification"?
Same computer language industry wide - ANSWER-What is "Accountability"?
Oral, written, electronic information management - ANSWER-What is "Privacy
Protection"?
1. Uniform billing process
2. Use of electronic transmittals
3. Continuity in patient care
4. Employment opportunities-HIPAA officers, Office of Civil Rights expanded, fraud
squads, hotlines
5. Violation of confidentiality now a federal crime !!! - ANSWER-What are the Benefits of
HIPAA?
1. Patient's expectations of privacy and confidentiality are important to providing quality
care
2. Affects all aspects of care: hospitals, outpatient, diagnostic, or the business office
3. Laws have increased in strength in response to situations in which private information
has ended up in the wrong hands - ANSWER-Why is privacy and confidentiality
important?
1. Protects the privacy and the security of individually identifiable health information
2. Establishes the 6 patient rights of health information - ANSWER-What does the
privacy rule do?
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 - ANSWER-What are the 6
patients rights of health information?
1. Electronic Data Interchange
2. Security
