HCISPP Online Practice Questions and Answers

The threat modeling identifies a man-in-the-middle (MITM) exposure. Which countermeasure should the information system security officer (ISSO) select to mitigate the risk of a protected Health information (PHI) data leak?

A. Auditing

B. Anonymization

C. Privacy monitoring

D. Data retention

Health Information Rights although your health record is the physical property of the healthcare practitioner or facility that compiled it, the information belongs to you. You do not have the right to:

A. obtain a paper copy of the notice of information practices upon request inspect and obtain a copy of your health record as provided for in 45 CFR 164.524

B. request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of your information outside the terms as provided by 45 CFR 164.522

C. amend your health record as provided in 45 CFR 164.528 obtain an accounting of disclosures of your health information as provided in 45 CFR 164.528

D. revoke your authorization to use or disclose health information except to the extent that action has already been taken

Health Care Providers, however

A. become the business associates of health plans even without joining a network

B. become the business associates of health plans by simply joining a network

C. do not become the business associates of health plans by simply joining a network

D. do not become the HIPPA associates of health plans by simply joining a network

Which of the following is a characteristic of a socialized health insurance system?

A. Health care is financed through government-mandated contributions by employers and employees

B. Health care is delivered by government-employed providers

C. Both a and b

D. Neither a nor b

Which of the following forces remains relatively stable, and major shifts in this area would be necessary to bring about any fundamental change in the US health care delivery system?

A. Economic forces

B. Political change

C. Beliefs and values

D. Social forces

What main purpose was served by an almshouse in the preindustrial period?

A. It was used to quarantine people who had contracted a contagious disease

B. It provided free medical care and drugs to ambulatory patients

C. It specialized in performing basic surgeries

D. It performed general welfare and custodial functions

Private health insurance coverage has decreased over the past decades because of.

A. The rising cost of health care.

B. An increase in non-unionized jobs

C. A shift from manufacturing jobs to service industry jobs

D. All of the above

As a result of the Dispersed Model of health care used in the U.S., the hospital structure resembles a diamond, with.

A. The bulk of the hospitals in the middle, providing a wide range of secondary and tertiary services.

B. A small number of hospitals at the top, which lack specialized units.

C. The bulk of the hospitals in the middle, which lack specialized units.

D. A small number of hospitals at the base, which provide highly super specialized referral services.

Integrated medical groups differ from IPAs in that.

A. Physicians own their practices and office assets.

B. Physicians become employees of an organization that owns the practice

C. Physicians act as gatekeepers

D. All of the above

February 17, 2010 was the effective date for updated changes to HIPAA triggered by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). As part of HITECH, what must providers who have clients who opt to self-pay do when those clients request the provider not inform their health care insurance provider?

A. The provider has the option to not disclose the information to the health care insurance provider

B. The provider must disclose the information anyway to the heath care insurance provider

C. The provider must not disclose the information to the health care insurance provider

D. The provider must have the client sign a waiver freeing the provider from the compulsion to report to the provider

This type of hospital is privately owned.

A. For Profit

B. Not for Profit

They make sure that patient charts are coded correctly for reimbursement.

A. Health Information Managers

B. Coders and reimbursement specialist

C. Cancer Registrars

Who was the first to identity syphilis?

A. Flemming

B. Koch

C. Fracastoro

D. Bill

Protected health information is anything that connects a patient to his or her health information.

A. True

B. False

Clients need to receive a copy of Notice of Privacy Practices.

A. True

B. False