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Pharmacy Tech Law Exam Questions
Correct Answers New Update (A+
Pass)
Federal Food and Drug Act - ✔✔FDA
- Series of consumer protection laws
- led to creation of the FDA
- banned foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products
- Products had to be inspected and offenders where prosecuted
- Active Ingredients had to be placed on labels of packaging
- drugs can not fall below purity levels set by United states pharmacopoeia or national Formulary
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ✔✔- HIPAA
- Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American
workers and families when they change or lose jobs
- reduces Health care fraud and abuse
- Mandatory Industry Wide standards for health care information and electronic billing processes
- requires the protections and confidential handling of protected health information
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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act - ✔✔OBRA
- Allowed Workers and Families to keep their group coverage in cases of volentary or involentary job loss
- in case of reduced hours worked
- job transitions
- give workers who lost their health benifits right to choose to continue plans under certain circumstances
- required under businesses with 20+ employees
- applies to both government and private sector
- set period of time, maybe influenced by circumstances
OBRA 90 - ✔✔- placed regulations on how to interact with patients
- record keeping mandates, prospective drug reviews
- counseling obligations
- must review medicaid participants enire drug profile before prescribing medications
Medicaid - ✔✔- Social Health care program for families and individuals with low income + recources
- government insurance for people of all ages who can not afford sufficient health care
- varies from state to state --> joint funded between state and federal
- must be US citizens or legal permanent residents
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Medicare - ✔✔- National Social Insurance Program
- administered by US government
- provides health insuracne for Americans aged 65+
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- members must have worked and payed for the system
- provides health insurance for younger people with disabilities
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Disability - ✔✔- Form of Insurance that insures the beneficiaries income against the risk that disability
creates a barrier for a worker to complete the core functions of their work
- encompasses paid sick leave, short term disability benefits, and long term disability benifits
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Ameriplan - ✔✔
U.S. Social Security Act - ✔✔- Social Welfare Legislation Act
- provides federal assistance to those who can not wotk
-
Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act - ✔✔- enacted to curb the growing problem of underground
manufacture of illegal drugs
- regulates over the counter products that can be used to make drugs
- include daily sales limits and 30 day purchase limits
- places products out of easy reach
- sale logbooks
- customer ID verification
- training of employees and sellers
-
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
Pharmacy Tech Law Exam Questions
Correct Answers New Update (A+
Pass)
Federal Food and Drug Act - ✔✔FDA
- Series of consumer protection laws
- led to creation of the FDA
- banned foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products
- Products had to be inspected and offenders where prosecuted
- Active Ingredients had to be placed on labels of packaging
- drugs can not fall below purity levels set by United states pharmacopoeia or national Formulary
-
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ✔✔- HIPAA
- Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American
workers and families when they change or lose jobs
- reduces Health care fraud and abuse
- Mandatory Industry Wide standards for health care information and electronic billing processes
- requires the protections and confidential handling of protected health information
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
,2|Page
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act - ✔✔OBRA
- Allowed Workers and Families to keep their group coverage in cases of volentary or involentary job loss
- in case of reduced hours worked
- job transitions
- give workers who lost their health benifits right to choose to continue plans under certain circumstances
- required under businesses with 20+ employees
- applies to both government and private sector
- set period of time, maybe influenced by circumstances
OBRA 90 - ✔✔- placed regulations on how to interact with patients
- record keeping mandates, prospective drug reviews
- counseling obligations
- must review medicaid participants enire drug profile before prescribing medications
Medicaid - ✔✔- Social Health care program for families and individuals with low income + recources
- government insurance for people of all ages who can not afford sufficient health care
- varies from state to state --> joint funded between state and federal
- must be US citizens or legal permanent residents
-
Medicare - ✔✔- National Social Insurance Program
- administered by US government
- provides health insuracne for Americans aged 65+
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
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- members must have worked and payed for the system
- provides health insurance for younger people with disabilities
-
Disability - ✔✔- Form of Insurance that insures the beneficiaries income against the risk that disability
creates a barrier for a worker to complete the core functions of their work
- encompasses paid sick leave, short term disability benefits, and long term disability benifits
-
Ameriplan - ✔✔
U.S. Social Security Act - ✔✔- Social Welfare Legislation Act
- provides federal assistance to those who can not wotk
-
Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act - ✔✔- enacted to curb the growing problem of underground
manufacture of illegal drugs
- regulates over the counter products that can be used to make drugs
- include daily sales limits and 30 day purchase limits
- places products out of easy reach
- sale logbooks
- customer ID verification
- training of employees and sellers
-
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
