HIPAA

What does HIPAA stand for?

• Health Insurance Privacy and Accountability Act

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• Health Insurance Privacy and Assistance Act

HIPAA ensures protection of personal _ information

Which rule of HIPAA establishes national standards to protect individuals medical records and other PHI

• Privacy Rule of 2000

• Security Rule of 2003

• Breach of Notification Rule

Which rule of HIPAA requires appropriate administrative, physical and technical safegaurds to ensure confidentiality

• Privacy Rule of 2000

• Security Rule of 2003

• Breach of Notification Rule

Which is NOT protected health information

• Names

• Addresses

• Diagnosis

• All of these are PHI

When in doubt, treat every piece of patient data as if it is protected information.

• True

• False

Match the violation Tier with the description

• Tier 1

• Willful neglect of HIPAA and no effort to correct the violation

• Tier 4

• Reasonable cause that the covered entity knew about or should have known about the violation by exercising reasonable due diligence

• Tier 3

• Unaware of the HIPAA violation and exercised reasonable due diligence

• Tier 2

• Willful neglect of HIPAA with the violation corrected within 30 days

A willful neglect of HIPAA rules and no effort to make to the correction could result in at least a $50,000 fine per violation

• True

• False

The Privacy Rule applies to both print and electronic medical records

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT a covered entities under the Privacy Rule

• Health Plans

• Healthcare Providers

• Personal Gym

• Healthcare Clearinghouses