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HIT-001 · Question #17

Your medical practice is being audited by a physician reviewer of a PPO with whom your practice has a contract. In order to determine the medical competency of all the physicians at your practice…

The correct answer is D. Simply make sure that the patients had signed the HIPAA privacy notification. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

Your medical practice is being audited by a physician reviewer of a PPO with whom your practice has a contract. In order to determine the medical competency of all the physicians at your practice, the partners of the practice wish to review five charts from your patient files to review provider performance regarding the newer associate doctors. In this situation what do you need to do comply with HIPAA?

Options

  • AEnsure that the patients have signed an authorization to allow for their information to be reviewed by
  • BCopy the files and remove or black-out identifying information
  • CThe associate doctors are required to sign a Business Associate agreement.
  • DSimply make sure that the patients had signed the HIPAA privacy notification.

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  • A
    14% (6)
  • B
    7% (3)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    74% (31)

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