Question

Margaret is a human resources professional who is staffing a temporary assignment for a small hospital. As a part of her recruitment efforts, she needs to review the competence and qualifications of 10 outpatient medical coders who will work from home as part of the assignment. This responsibility would fall under the heading of _______ for purposes of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

A. recruitment classification
B. health care operations
C. administrative operations
D. medical employment classification

Answer 1

B is the correct answer

Answer 2

This will be under letter d, medical employment classification. It is because employment classification is where the person assigned to this will classify the employees or analyze them if they are fitted for the job with the characteristics or attainment they acquire. If it falls under medical employment classification, then the employees that are are being analyzed falls in the categories of people who will be working on the medical field.