Deck 1: Introduction to Hipaa

Question 1

All covered entities will be treated equally regarding payment for health care services.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Choose the correct acronym for Public Law 104-91.

A) HIPO
B) HIPPA
C) HIPAA
D) HIPPO

Answer 2

HIPAA

Question 3

An employer who has less than 50 employees and is self-insured is a covered entity.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What is the intent of the clarification Congress passed in 1997?

A) To force covered entities to comply with HIPAA
B) To simplify billing procedures so services would be paid by check
C) To mandate that medical billing would have a nationwide standard to transmit electronically using electronic data interchange
D) To instruct all health plans to pay any health claim

Question 5

PHI (protected health information) is

A) any information that identifies an individual with a diagnosis.
B) health information created or received by a covered entity.
C) health information related to a physical or mental condition.
D) all of the above.

Question 6

Only clinical staff need to understand HIPAA law.

Question 7

Privacy Rule covers disclosure of protected health information (PHI) in any form or media.

Question 8

Which group is the focus of Title II of HIPAA ruling?

A) Health care providers
B) Health plans
C) Health care clearinghouses
D) Medicare and Medicaid programs

Question 9

With the passage of HIPAA, large health care providers would be treated with faster service since their volume of claims is larger than small rural providers.

Question 10

Home help personnel, taxicab companies, and carpenters fit the definition of a covered entity.

Question 11

There is a 24-month grace period after the effective date for the HIPAA rules before a covered entity must comply with the ruling.

Question 12

Which group is the focus of Title I of HIPAA?

A) Health care providers
B) Health plans
C) The insured
D) Health care clearinghouses

Question 13

Which is not a responsibility of the HIPAA Officer?

A) Training staff members of HIPAA law
B) Being informed of any changes to HIPAA law
C) Ensuring all wastepaper is shredded
D) Safeguarding the security of clinical records

Question 14

Written policies are a responsibility of the HIPAA Officer.

Question 15

Under HIPAA law, providers may choose to submit claims either on paper or electronically.

A) True
B) False
C) Sometimes
D) It depends whether they are a small or large provider.

Question 16

What government agency approves final rules released in the Federal Register ?

A) Department of Education
B) Department of Interior
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) Department of Health and Human Services

Question 17

What is a major point of the Title I portion of HIPAA?

A) Guarantee of renewability
B) Preventing fraud and abuse
C) Liability reform
D) Administrative simplification

Question 18

Health care professionals have found HIPAA has simplified claims submissions.

Question 19

Privacy of e-PHI and Security of e-PHI are the same thing.

Question 20

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is responsible to notify all health care providers of changes in the HIPAA rulings.

Question 21

Medical Savings Account (now Health Savings Account) is a means to shelter funds from taxes to pay for

A) premiums only.
B) yearly IRS tax liability.
C) only hospital bills.
D) medical expenses.

Question 22

PHI has been defined in HIPAA by

A) DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services).
B) CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
C) CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
D) State insurance commissioners.

Question 25

What year did Public Law 104-91 pass both houses of Congress?

Question 26

The Privacy Rule for PHI states

A) who has been issued unique identifiers.
B) when authorization is needed.
C) when passwords need to be changed.
D) how to handle electronic PHI.

Question 27

How many titles are included in the Public Law 104-91?

Question 28

List the four key words that summarize the areas of health care that HIPAA has addressed. (Type without uppercase lettering.)

Question 29

Industry-wide standards for health claims bring simplification because

A) all transactions are the same format.
B) any payer will accept claims.
C) neither A nor B.
D) both A and B.

Question 30

The HIPAA Security Officers are responsible for

A) seeing that all facility doors are locked at night.
B) seeing that there is safe storage for paper medical records.
C) hiring security guards for their facility.
D) safeguarding all electronic patient health information.

Question 31

Which department would need to help the Security Officer most?

A) Nursing Staff
B) Maintenance Department
C) Medical Records
D) Information Services and Technology

Question 32

Under HIPAA law, delegates from Medical Records Department, Patient Accounts/Business Office, and Satellite clinics would receive training concerning HIPAA law from what officer?

Question 33

The HIPAA Privacy Officer is responsible for

A) keeping staff names secret.
B) tracking who has access to PHI.
C) checking that passwords are changed weekly.
D) securing the computer server room from outside visitors.

Question 34

Which is the most efficient means to store PHI?

A) Audiotapes
B) Paper
C) Electronic storage
D) Microfiche

Question 35

COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985) helps workers who have coverage with a

A) managed care organization.
B) group health plan.
C) fee-for-service plan.
D) Medicaid.

Question 36

Which group is not one of the three covered entities?

A) Patients
B) Health care plans
C) Health care clearinghouse
D) Health care provider

Question 37

What type of health information does the Security Rule address?

A) Paper medical files
B) Only the financial records of patients
C) The list of benefits and payments for services by health plans
D) Electronic PHI held by a covered entity