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a health plan may be offered by an employer, a private insurer, a goverment entity or other group

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True

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title I of HIPPA covers administrative simplification

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false

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COBRA guarantees health coverage for an employee leaving a job for a least three years

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false

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an electronic data interchange is an exchange between a person and a computers

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false

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HIPPA always has preemption over state laws

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false

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there is a diference in the length of time allowed for compliance with HHS standars between large health plans and small health plans

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true

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bussines asociates must follow HIPPA standars

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true

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patient's medical records may be withheld from patients under certain specific conditions

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true

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electronical medical records are generally thought to reduce medical errors

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true

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all covered entities must have a notice of privacy practices and make available to their patients/members

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true

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a patient must always be notified if a minor is pregnant

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false

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there are no restrictions on realease of de-identified health information

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true

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the rules for release do not cover court orders that are received bu the covered entity

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true

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state laws require the reporting by physicians of certain diseases

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true

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patients have the right to request restrictions on the use and disclosure of their PHI

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true

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covered entities may not charge patients for copying medical records

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false

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patients can request amendments to their medical records

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true

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PHI stands for private health information

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false

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medical records are legal documents

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true

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under HIPPA the concept of integrity of ePHI is making sure that information is not changed during transmission

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true

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malware is a type of secure software

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false

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encryption is the encoding of a message

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true

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under HIPPA, all covered entities are required to performe risk analysis

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true

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national identifiers have been set up for patients

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false

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HIPPA standars apply only to electronic transactions conducted by covered entities

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false

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a remmittance advice statements includes how health plan arrived at a payment or why a claim was denied

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true

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fraud is international while abuse may not neccesarly be on purpose

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true

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using PHI for profit can result in prision and a $250,000 fine

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true

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you should feel confortable sharing your paswoord with others in the office, specially if the physician gave you his password

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false

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many offices have sign in sheets where patients are required to sign in as they enter. this give the receptionist a priority list if whi should be seen next. This list has been banned by HIPPA

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false

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the health care provider's NPI will change each year

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false

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a crosswalk will not be created to match UPIN's to NPI's

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false

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health care providers must obtain permission from a patient before nitifying public health authoritoes of occurence of a reportable disease

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false

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the HIPPA privacy rule prohibits health plans and providers from using debt collections agencies

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false

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when more than one doctor is trating a patient, a signed autorization is needed in order to send medical records to another provider

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true

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what do the inicials HIPPA stands for

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health insurance portability and accountability act

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medical coverage offered by employers to employees is

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group health plan

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a law firm that does business with a health care provider is a(n)

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business associate

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an example of an indirect provider is

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a laboratory

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COBRA requires that

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an employee who is leaving a job be given the option to continue coverage

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HIPPA rules apply to

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health care workers, providers, and insurance

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the following are health care providers

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chiropractors, ophthalmologist, and hospitals

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under HIPPA a health plans can "look back: for preexisting conditions for a period of

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twelve months

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preexisting condition exclusions for pregnancy apply for up to

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do not apply

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providers who have fewer than _ full time or equivalent employees are not required to send medicare claims electronically

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10

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security estandars are enforced by

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CMS

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use and disclosure of PHI may be defined as the realese of information

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for treatments, payments, and health care operations

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the HIPPA privacy rules require that

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covered entities safeguard patients records

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a privacy officer must be

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a member of the provider's staff

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patients may revoke autorizations

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a any time

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to legally release PHI for purposes other than treatment, payment, or health care operations, a signed ____ is required

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authorization

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under HIPPA risk management is

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a plan for reducing threats to security

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cryptography is

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encoding of messages

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the technical issues of the HIPPA security standards address

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access to ePHI

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medical records should be retained for

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indefinitely

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under HIPPA the following are required to send Medicare claims electronically

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hospitals

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CPT includes codes for

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procedures

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HCPCS includes codes for

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supplies

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an HCPCS code may be for

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DME

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the national provider identifier NPI is assigned by

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HHS

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NPIs are mandated for use:

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now

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violations of the privacy rule are enforced by

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OCR

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when a business associate violates its agreement to protect PHI:

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the CE must take steps to end the violation

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under HIPPA fraud includes

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upcoding

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an external audits is triggered by

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an enforncing agency

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the following is a violation of the privacy rule

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telling another patient about a patient's diagnosis

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the following is a violation of the starks laws

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refering a patient to a pharmacy in which you are part owner

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the following is a violation of the Sarbanes-oxley act

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punishing a whistleblower

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who regulates HIPPA?

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U.S. goverment

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what is the HIPPA privacy?

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hippocrates oath 400bc, PHI is protected and held confidential, security standars for privacy and confidentiality, ALL THE ABOVE

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who is the health care organization is responsible for knowing where the written policies regarding HIPPA compliance are located?

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privacy officer or official

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who is permited to file a complaint alleging a violation of HIPPA provetions?

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anyone

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the ttempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, destruction of information or interference with system operations in an information system

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security incident

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the process whereby cost-effective security and control measures may be selected by balancing the cost of various security/control measures against the losses that would be expected if these measeres were not in place

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risk analysis

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receives a standard transactions from another entity and processes or facilitates the processing of information into nonstandard format or nonstandard data content for a receiving entity

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clearinghouse

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a plan including applications and data criticality analysis, a data backup plan, a disaster recovery plan, and emergency mode operation plan, and testing and revision procedures

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contingency plan

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