The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

question 29

Multiple Choice

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• A) ensures that a consumer can keep the same health care provider even when he or she changes employers.
• B) attempts to limit the exchange of information among health care providers to that information necessary to care for the patient.
• C) ensures that a consumer can sue doctors and hospitals for medical malpractice.
• D) ensures that doctors and hospitals can counter sue patients who file frivolous medical malpractice claims.
• E) All of the above

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