What does HIPAA stand for? Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
Federal privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health
What is HIPAA? information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care
providers.
When did HIPAA take effect? Took effect on April 14, 2003.
What does HIPAA's standards provide Access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health
patients with? information is used and disclosed
limiting administrative cost of health care, privacy issues, and preventing fraud and
What were the goals that HIPAA was
abuse were of primary importance. The law has also had to include privacy and
designed for?
confidentiality rules to protect the patient
What did the law have to include in HIPAA to Privacy and Confidentiality rules
protect the patient?
Why were Privacy and Confidentiality rules To protect the patient
included in HIPAA?
Who developed HIPAA? Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
What was an advantage of HIPAA? It's uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country.
State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new
What as not affected by HIPAA?
rule
It reduces health care fraud, guarantee security and privacy of healthcare info., enforce
What does HIPAA do?
standards for electronic data interchange
1. Portability
2. Standardization
What are the 5 parts of HIPAA? 3. Administration Simplification
4. Accountability
5. Privacy Protection
What is "Portability"? Continuity of coverage access; denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions
HIPAA Test Review
What is "Standardization"? Of billing of format and language
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