Section 2.2
What is the full name and year of HIPPA?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
What does PHI stand for?
Protected Health Information
What is an impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the privacy of PHI?
True or false?
A code set is any group of codes used for encoding data elements
True
True or false?
The false claims act entitles those who suspect and report fraud and abuse to the government with a monetary reward?
True
What is the main federal government agency responsible for healthcare?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
What is identifiable health information that is transmitted or maintained by electronic media, such as over the Internet?
Protected Health Information
Within how many days should a breach be notified?
60 calendar days after discovery
What are numbers of predetermined length and structure, such as a person's Social Security number?
Identifiers
What was also known as the Stimulus Package?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
What are the 3 reasons that PHI can be shared without patient authorization?
Treatment, Payment, and Healthcare operations (TPO)
What rule requires covered entities to ESTABLISH SAFEGUARDS to protect PHI?
HIPAA Security Rule
What does NPI stand for?
National Provider Identifier
What does OIG stand for?
Office of Inspector General
What act reduced the number of people without health insurance?
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
First contact or encounter
What is the process of encoding information that only the person (or computer) with the key can decode it?
Encryption
What does OESS stand for?
Office of E-Health Standards and Services
What is the full name of the HITECH Act?
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
What are 2 of the 6 exceptions for a release of PHI?
Emergencies, court orders, workers compensation cases, statutory reports, research, and self-pay
True or False?
Backups do not have to be encrypted
Who has the authority to receive and investigate complaints as well as to issue subpoenas?
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
An ambulance service bills Medicare for transporting a patient to a hospital when the patient did not need ambulance service.
Is this considered fraud or abuse?