HIPAA - correct answer ✔-Goal: improve portability and continuity of health
insurance
-Originated as plan to reduce health care administrative costs
confidentiality - correct answer ✔under HIPAA, healthcare providers ensure
that patient _______ is always maintained
PHI - correct answer ✔Refers to any patient information in any form that is
created or received by a covered entity, relates to a patient's health condition
in the past, present, or future, and identifies the patient.
office of civil rights - correct answer ✔government agency that accepts and
investigates complaints related to the Privacy Rule, it enforces civil violations
of HIPAA privacy standards,
department of justice - correct answer ✔Government agency that
investigates the most serious violations of the Privacy Rule, prosecutes
criminal violations
PHI - correct answer ✔any piece of information that identifies or could be
used to identify any specific individual
PHI - correct answer ✔Patients have the right to be told how their
_________ can be used.
Title I - correct answer ✔this part of HIPAA focuses on continuation of health
insurance coverage and insurance reform
, State laws - correct answer ✔These types of law regulatesmany types of
health insurance
ERISA - correct answer ✔Employer offered health plans are regulated by
this Act of 1974
Title I - correct answer ✔COBRA is under this part of HIPAA
COBRA - correct answer ✔this act of 1985 allows employees who are
leaving a job to elect to continue their previous employer's health coverage for
a limited time.
Portability - correct answer ✔Being able to transfer group health insurance
form one job to another
Title I - correct answer ✔this part of HIPAA gave certain people the ability to
enroll in new healthcare plans of different types.
Title II - correct answer ✔controls the private health information of
individuals. It is known as administrative simplification.
Title II - correct answer ✔The rules in this part of HIPAA cover
administrative, financial, and case management policies and procedures. It
contains strict requirements for the uniform transfer rules of patient
confidentiality.
Title II - correct answer ✔this part of HIPAA restricted electronic transfer of
healthcare data, gave patients more rights regarding their own personal
information, and put in place better security of this information.