HIPAA QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
If the patient is present and has the capacity to make health care decisions, when does
HIPAA allow a health care provider to discuss the patient's health information with the
patient's family, friends, or others involved in the patient's care or payment for care? -
Answer-When the patient agrees or does not object
True or False: A doctor may give information about a patient's mobility limitations to the
patient's sister who is driving the patient home from the hospital. - Answer-True
True or False: If the patient is not present or is incapacitated, a health care provider
may not share the patient's health information with family, friends, or others involved in
the patient's care or payment for care. - Answer-False
True or False: A health care provider may give information regarding a patient's drug
dosage to the patient's health aide who calls the provider with questions about the
particular prescription. - Answer-True
Does HIPAA require that a health care provider document a patient's decision to allow
the provider to share his or her health information with a family member, friend, or other
person involved in the patient's care or payment for care? - Answer-Yes
True or False: A health care provider may discuss a patient's health information over the
phone with the patient's family, friends, or others involved in the patient's care or
payment for care without proof of who the person is? - Answer-True
If you receive a request from a trusted co-worker to share more PHI/PII than necessary
to answer a question, what is your best response? - Answer-Indicate that only the
minimum necessary information can be shared and work to provide only the information
necessary to answer the question.
A hospital or physician practice is required to protect the privacy of health information in
what form? - Answer-Any form - verbal, paper, and/or electronic
In situations where there is a breach of PHI, what is required by HIPAA? - Answer-All of
the above
Contrary to policy, an employee looks in the electronic medical record of a celebrity to
determine the reason for the celebrity's recent hospitalization. While dining in the
cafeteria, the employee's manager overhears the employee telling a co-worker about
the celebrity. The BEST next step for the manager is to - Answer-Explain to the
employee that sharing the celebrity's hospitalization information with others is an
inappropriate disclosure of PHI and report the incident to the Privacy Official and
Human Resources for further follow-up.
If the patient is present and has the capacity to make health care decisions, when does
HIPAA allow a health care provider to discuss the patient's health information with the
patient's family, friends, or others involved in the patient's care or payment for care? -
Answer-When the patient agrees or does not object
True or False: A doctor may give information about a patient's mobility limitations to the
patient's sister who is driving the patient home from the hospital. - Answer-True
True or False: If the patient is not present or is incapacitated, a health care provider
may not share the patient's health information with family, friends, or others involved in
the patient's care or payment for care. - Answer-False
True or False: A health care provider may give information regarding a patient's drug
dosage to the patient's health aide who calls the provider with questions about the
particular prescription. - Answer-True
Does HIPAA require that a health care provider document a patient's decision to allow
the provider to share his or her health information with a family member, friend, or other
person involved in the patient's care or payment for care? - Answer-Yes
True or False: A health care provider may discuss a patient's health information over the
phone with the patient's family, friends, or others involved in the patient's care or
payment for care without proof of who the person is? - Answer-True
If you receive a request from a trusted co-worker to share more PHI/PII than necessary
to answer a question, what is your best response? - Answer-Indicate that only the
minimum necessary information can be shared and work to provide only the information
necessary to answer the question.
A hospital or physician practice is required to protect the privacy of health information in
what form? - Answer-Any form - verbal, paper, and/or electronic
In situations where there is a breach of PHI, what is required by HIPAA? - Answer-All of
the above
Contrary to policy, an employee looks in the electronic medical record of a celebrity to
determine the reason for the celebrity's recent hospitalization. While dining in the
cafeteria, the employee's manager overhears the employee telling a co-worker about
the celebrity. The BEST next step for the manager is to - Answer-Explain to the
employee that sharing the celebrity's hospitalization information with others is an
inappropriate disclosure of PHI and report the incident to the Privacy Official and
Human Resources for further follow-up.
