HCISPP Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following is a dimension of social health?

A. Sociability

B. Community involvement

C. Marital satisfaction

D. All of the above

What was the function of a pest house in the preindustrial period?

A. To house people who had a contagious disease.

B. To provide refuge to those who were threatened by pests.

C. To eradicate pests.

D. To treat contagious diseases.

What does "MUA" stand for?

A. Metropolitan Utilization Area

B. Medically Underserved Area

C. Metropolitan Underserved Area

D. Medical Utilization Area

Excessive health care is a concern because it is.

A. Wasteful

B. Costly

C. Potentially harmful

D. All of the above

Access to health care is measured by.

A. The type of insurance a person has.

B. The number of times a person uses health care services.

C. The quality of health care services a person has.

D. The number of physicians available to a person.

Under Title II of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the administrative simplification provision:

A. Forbids individual health plans from denying coverage or imposing preexisting condition exclusions

B. Creates opportunities for fraud and abuse within the health care system

C. Requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions

D. Protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families

What is the title given to the group authorized by the HIPAA Privacy Rule to approve a waiver of authorization for the disclosure and/or use of personally identifiable health information?

A. Cohort Group

B. Institutional Review Board

C. Privacy Board

D. Board of Directors

Breach notification exceptions are provided to all, EXCEPT:

A. Business associates who access information by good faith, unintentional means and do not further disclose information

B. Unintentional, good faith access by employees of covered entities if the information was not further disclosed

C. If the information impacted less than 500 people within a single demographic area

D. Inadvertent disclosure made individual to individual within a covered entity who is authorized to access protected health information

Is a list of all items of business to be discussed.

A. Minutes

B. Agenda

The criminal penalties for improperly disclosing patient health information can be as high as fines of $250,000 and prison sentences of up to 10 years.

A. True

B. False