Shhhhh!
Agency Shmagency
HIS (not HERS)
Level Up
What a disaster!
100
The document that should be offered to all patients documenting the facility polices regarding patient privacy.
What is the Notice of Privacy Practices?
100
An independent ,not-for-profit organization,and the nation's oldest and largest standards setting and healthcare accrediting body.
What is The Joint Commission?
100
Eligibility & benefit query HL7 transaction number.
What is 270?
100
Care delivered to patients experiencing acute illness or trauma. There is usually the expectation that the patient will need hospital care for 24 hours or more.
What is Acute Inpatient Care?
100
Something that occurs immediately after a disaster exercise so players can describe their immediate impressions.
What is a hotwash?
200
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
200
The enforcement arm of CMS. Its purpose is to fight waste, fraud & abuse.
What is the Office of the Inspector General?
200
271
What is the eligibility and benefit response HL7 transaction number?
200
Services furnished on a hospital's premises. They should be reasonable and necessary to evaluate an outpatient condition to determine the need for a possible admission to the hospital as an inpatient.
What is Observation Care?
200
AAR/IP
What is an After Action Report/Improvement Plan?
300
Initially, this legislation focused on the portabiity of health insurance coverage.
What is HIPAA?
300
They enforce the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
What is the Office for Civil Rights?
300
ADT
What is Admission, Discharge & Transfer?
300
Treatment received by a patient at a hospital, but that does not require hospitalization.
What is Outpatient Care?
300
A single or multi-agency activity designed to evaluate capabilities and multiple functions using simulated response.
What is a functional exercise?
400
The provision of HIPAA that permits certain incidental uses and disclosures as long as the health care entity applied "reasonable safeguards" and implemented the "minimum necessary" standard.
What is the Privacy Rule?
400
HIPAA established a national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program under the joint direction of the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), designed to coordinate Federal, state and local law enforcement activities with respect to health care fraud and abuse.
What is the Department of Justice?
400
MPI
What is Master Patient Index?
400
Short term, temporary custodial care provided at home, in a long-term care facility, at a community based center, or in a hospital when another setting is not available. Allows families caring for dependent chronically incapacitated patients some time off in their care giving responsibilities.
What is Respite Care?
400
FSE
What is a full scale exercise?
500
These provisions of the HIPAA legislation are intended to reduce costs and administrative burdens of healthcare through the standardization of electronic administrative and financial transations.
What are the Administrative Simplification rules?
500
Group of health quality experts, clinicians, and consumers organized to improve the care delivered to people with Medicare. They work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assist Medicare providers with quality improvement and to review quality concerns for the protection of beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust Fund.
What is a Quality Improvement Organization?
500
2 common ways that data is transmitted in a healthcare information system.
What are batch processing and interfaces?
500
The medical specialty focused on the relief of pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life.
What is Palliative Care?
500
The Patient Access disaster plan should include these 4 key areas.
What are Response, Backup, Recovery & Mitigation?