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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
,What were the goals that HIPAA was designed for? - (answer)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*
What did the law have to include in HIPAA to protect the patient? -
(answer)Privacy and Confidentiality rules
Why were Privacy and Confidentiality rules included in HIPAA? - (answer)To
protect the patient
Who developed HIPAA? - (answer)Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS)
What was an advantage of HIPAA? - (answer)It's uniform, federal floor of privacy
protections for consumers across the country.
, What as not affected by HIPAA? - (answer)State laws providing additional
protections to consumers are not affected by this new rule
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