Which U.S. Constitutional Amendments deal with the issue of privacy?
First
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Ninth
Fourteenth
List the four HIPAA Standards and briefly describe their purpose
2) Transactions and Code sets--- Transactions are the transmission of information between two parties
Code Sets are any set of codes used to encode data elements
3) Privacy Rule--- Policies and procedures put in place to ensure confidentiality of written,
List the six HIPAA-defined permissions
6) Disclosures to patients
7) Use of disclosure for treatment, Payment, or health care operations
8) Uses and disclosures with Opportunity to Agree or Object
9) Incidental used and disclosures of PHI
10) Public Interest and Benefit Activities
11) Limited
Briefly define limited data set and list one example of when it might be used
12) Limited data set is protected health information from which certain specified, direct identifiers of individuals and relatives, household members, and employers have been removed
13) Might be used and disclosed for research or health care operations
List three public interest and benefit activities for which the disclosure of PHI is allowed without authorization
14) If required by law
15) For research
16) For victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence
Check each activity listed below that is permitted by HIPAA without authorization. What is the understood provision n each permitted case?
If they take reasonable precautions to ensure that others cannot overhear
You are a medical records supervisor in a clinic. A pharmaceutical from asks for data on patients with a certain diagnosis for a study of the numbers of people with the disease. Can you give them the information they ask for? If so, how will you provide t
You can only release patient information to them with the patient's permission, if given. Release only a limited data set
Would you most likely send a patient's electronic medical record or his electronic health record to a specialist collaborating on the patient's treatment with your physician employer?
Yes
How might a health care provider demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic records as required by law?
By using the END and EHR to improve quality, safety, efficiency of health care, and reduce disparities
One of the best ways to ensure against loss or corruption of medical data is to
Backup all data regularly
Training employees in proper computer use involves which of the following?
Never post passwords where others can see them
Which of the following is NOT a helpful HIPAA security compliance measure?
Never use cloud technology for data storage
Which of the following constitutes a data breach?
All of these
What is the primary purpose of the HITECH Rule?
To strengthen the privacy and security protections for health information established under HIPAA
Which is NOT one of the reasons Medicare fraud is not easy to estimate?
Records are destroyed yearly
Which of the following government agencies is charged with fighting and prosecuting waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid?
Office of the Inspector General
The False Claims Act provides for
People bringing claims to share in any court-awarded damages
A physician pays a long-term care administrator to refer all new Medicare and Medicaid patients to his medical practice. He is most likely to be accused of violating which federal law?
The Federal Anti-Kickback Law
An entity may have violated the Stark Law if "yes" is answered to which of the following questions?
All of these
Which of the following statements is true?
The Federal Anti-Kickback Law and Stark Law are not the same
Which of the following might a health care practitioner suffer if convicted of the False Claims Act, the Federal Anti-Kickback Law, the Stark Law, or the Criminal health care Fraud Statute?
All of these
33-37) Check all statements below that are true of a Patients Bill of Rights:
True statements are=
The Patients Bill of Rights for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act applied to insurance companies
Some health care providers publish their own Patients Bill of Rights