HIPAA stands for:

A) Health Insurance Protection Amendment Act
B) Hospital Intern/Physician Accountability Act
C) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D) Health Insurance Protection and Associated Amendments


C) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The other choices are not actual names of acts but use the HIPAA initials, and all appear to be realistically possible names for the act.

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A) Medical insurance. B) Prescription drug insurance. C) Hospital insurance. D) Home healthcare insurance.

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Signs and symptoms of hyperkalemia would include which of the following? 1. Cardiac arrest 2. Electrocardiogram abnormalities 3. Metabolic alkalosis 4. Ventricular arrhythmias

a. 1, 2, and 4 only b. 2 and 3 only c. 2, 3, and 4 only d. 1, 2, 3, and 4

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Air-filled spaces like the lungs and the intestines create a host of symptoms that are covered under the broad umbrella term of ____.

A. dysbarism B. narcosis C. barotrauma D. decompression illness

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All health care employers require each worker to have a career plan, and they base their annual pay raises on the extent to which workers meet their goals

A. True B. False

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