Which of the following statements is true about the Patients' Bill of Rights?
A. The Patients' Bill of Rights is the fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
B. The Patients' Bill of Rights is part of HITECH.
C. No one universal government statute exists.
D. The American Hospital Association has a Patients' Bill of Rights that became federal law.
E. The Bipartisan Patient Protection Act of 2001 was passed as a Patients' Bill of Rights.
C. No one universal government statute exists.
Currently, no official government statute exists that tells health care consumers exactly what their rights are. While HIPAA provides a list of rights in its Privacy Rule, those rights cover privacy issues only.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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