Inclusive Home Care

HIPPA Training

HIPPA Training

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After reading the document, please begin the test below:
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HIPPA Training Test
1: Among other things, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) contained provisions to expand the availability of health care insurance coverage.
- True
- False
2: The HIPAA privacy rules that have been promulgated needed to be implemented by covered entities by April 14, 2003.
- True
- False
3: HIPAA privacy rules are always followed even if the state's law is more stringent.
- True
- False
4: The ability to store patient health information electronically has dramatically increased the need for privacy rules.
- True
- False
5: Health care providers, health plans, health care clearing houses and business associates are all considered covered entities under HIPAA and subject to all its rules and regulations.
- True
- False
6: Information that is created by an entity, including paper, electronic, videotapes, photos, is referred to as protected health information (PHI).
- True
- False
7: The ‘minimum necessary rule’ means that only necessary information should be shared even if the patient has given authorization.
- True
- False
8: Patients have the right to know what disclosures have been made and are entitled to receive a free accounting every 12 months.
- True
- False
9: According to HIPAA, employees are responsible for getting training about privacy rules on their own; the employing agency is not mandated to provide training.
- True
- False
10: All agencies covered by HIPAA must appoint a privacy officer and establish an internal compliance process to assure that patient rights are not being violated.
- True
- False
11: New changes to HIPAA were implemented in 2013.
- True
- False
12: CMS has promulgated rules regarding how information must be coded for billing submission to Medicare and Medicaid.
- True
- False
13. Identification of what is ‘at risk’ in the following. Circle appropriate answers below:
File Cabinets containing charts will be protected by:
- a. Locked office/locked cabinets
- b. Sign on cabinet.
- c. Fingerprints
- d. Not applicable
14. Discarded PHI Papers and forms will be protected by:
- a. Placing them in the dumpster
- b. Putting them in a paper bag and then in the garbage
- c. Using a shredder
- d. Burning them
15. Faxed copies of information will be protected by:
- a. Placing them in the dumpster
- b. Putting them in a paper bag and then in the garbage
- c. Using a shredder
- d. Burning them
16. Previously scanned documents will be protected by:
- a. Placing them in the dumpster
- b. Putting them in a paper bag and then in the garbage
- c. Using a shredder
- d. Burning them
17. Inactive Patient Charts will be protected by:
- a. Discarding them in the trash
- b. Storage/Computer Back-up
- c. Burning them
- d. Storing them in the Administrator’s home
18. Obsolete Patient Schedules will be protected by:
- a. Placing them in the dumpster
- b. Putting them in a paper bag and then in the garbage
- c. Burning them
- d. Shredder
19. Obsolete Patient Routing Slips will be protected by:
- a. Placing them in the dumpster
- b. Putting them in a paper bag and then in the garbage
- c. Using a shredder
- d. Burning them
20. Employee Workstations will be protected by:
- a. Closing your computer at night
- b. Password
- c. Giving your supervisor access to your computer
- d. None of the above
21. Electronic Claim Submission will be protected by:
- a. Router and Firewall
- b. Closing the program when not in use
- c. Storing the program in the Administrator’s home
- d. Not Applicable
22. Our Internal Database will be protected by:
- a. Closing the program when not in use
- b. Daily Back-up
- c. Storing the program in the Administrator’s home
- d. Not Applicable
23. Our Internet Server will be protected by:
- a. Router and Firewall
- b. Closing the program when not in use
- c. Storing the program in the Administrator’s home
- d. Not Applicable
24. Daily Data Back-up will be protected by:
- a. Automatically
- b. Each individual worker
25. Doctor’s Smart Phone Patient Info will be protected by:
- a. Automatically
- b. Office Manager
- c. Physician
- d. Not Applicable
26. Our Telephone Answering System will be protected by:
- a. Internal Phone System
- b. Each individual staff member
- c. Office Manager
- d. Not applicable
27. Our electronic confirmation service will be protected by:
- a. Administrator
- b. Service Provider
- c. Office Manager
- d. Not applicable
28. Emailing Patient Information will be protected by:
- a. Internet Provider
- b. Administrator
- c. Encryption
- d. Not Applicable
29. Receiving Emailed Patient Information will be protected by:
- a. Internet Provider
- b. Administrator
- c. Encryption
- d. Not Applicable
30. Digital x-ray transmission will be protected by:
- a. Internet Provider
- b. Administrator
- c. Encryption
- d. Not Applicable

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