Fundamentals of HIPAA Elaborations
Medical expenses **** Medical savings account now help savings account is a means to shelter funds from taxes to pay for
False **** An employer who has fewer than 50 employees, and his self insured is a covered entity
Medical expenses **** Medical savings account now help savings account is a means
to shelter funds from taxes to pay for
False **** An employer who has fewer than 50 employees, and his self insured is a
covered entity
Safeguarding all electric patient health information **** The HIPAA security officer is
responsible for
Information, services and technology **** Department would need to help the security
officer most
True the privacy role covers any form of health information **** Privacy rule covers
disclosure of protected health information PHI in any form or media
False privacy covers PHI in any format security involves only electronic, PHI e-PHI ****
Privacy of PHI and security of PHI are the same thing
A group health plan **** COBRA consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act of
1985 helps workers who have coverage with
Safeguarding the security of clinical records **** Not a responsibility of HIPAA officer
True **** Written policies are responsibility of the HIPAA officer
True **** Home Health personnel, toxic cow companies and carpenters may fit the
definition of a covered entity
Chocking who has access to PHI **** The HIPAA privacy officer is responsible for
HIPAA **** Correct acronym for Public Law 104-91
It depends on whether they are small or large provider **** Under HIPAA providers
may choose to submit claims either on paper or electronically
Guarantee of renewability **** What is a major point of the Title 1 portion of HIPAA
CMS centers for Medicare and Medicaid services **** PHI have been defined in HIPAA
by
, Electronic PHI, held by a covered entity **** What type of health information does the
security rule address?
Health plans **** Which group of the focus of title 1 of HIPAA ruling
Electronic storage **** What is the most efficient means to store PHI?
Any information that associates an individual with a diagnosis **** PHI protected health
information. Is
Department of Health and Human Services **** What government agency approves
final rules released in the federal register
When authorization is needed **** The privacy rule for PHI states
False
Each covered entity is responsible to be informed and compliant with HIPAA rules. The
HIPAA officer is the person to keep a breast of changes in the law. **** The
Department of health and human services DHHS is responsible to notify all healthcare
providers of changes in the HIPAA rollings
True **** Healthcare professionals have generally found that HIPAA has simplified
claim submissions
Patients **** Group that is not one of the three covered entities. covered are
healthcare plans, healthcare, clearing houses, and healthcare providers
False
. Anyone who is exposed to PHI in the course of a job at a healthcare facility, must
abide by HIPAA. **** Only clinical staff need to understand HIPAA
All transactions are the same format and any pair will accept claims **** Industry wide
standards for health claims spring simplification, because
Healthcare providers **** What group is the focus of title II HIPAA ruling?
True **** There is a 24 month grace period after the effective date for the HIPAA rules
before covered entity, must comply with the ruling
False
Any part of a patient's medical information that can be associated with an identifier is
protected by HIPAA. **** Nursing notes are not considered PHI, since they are not a
physicians notes, therefore are not protected by HIPAA
False
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