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HIPAA
HIPAA-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Question | Answer |
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HIPAA | Legislation that includes Title II; the first parameters are designed to protect the privacy and security of patient information. |
HIPAA defines fraud as | an intentional deception of misrepresentation. |
What is confidentiality? | The right of an individual to have personal, identifiable information kept private, except by covered entities. |
Compliance Regulation | Most billing related cases are based on HIPAA and the False Claims Act. |
Final Rule | Strengthens, modernizes, and makes the HIPAA ruling around privacy, security, breach, notification, and penalties more effective. |
Privacy Rule | A HIPAA rule that establishes protections for the privacy of individual's health information. |
Title II | Prevents health care fraud and abuse; Medical Liability Reform; Administrative simplification that requires establishment of national standard for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, employees, and insurance plans. |