EXCPT Prep #4

Question 1

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Answer 1

rules to protect the privacy of individual health information

Question 2

HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

Answer 2

rule that pharmacies must notify patients ASAP when their PHI is exposed

Question 3

“minimum necessary use and disclosure”

Answer 3

principle of disclosing as little information as necessary

Question 4

generic equivalent

Answer 4

active ingredient of a branded medication

Question 5

Federal Orange Book

Answer 5

book that lists all of the FDA’s approved medications

Question 6

narrow therapeutic index drug

Answer 6

drugs that require careful dose titration and patient monitoring in order to be used safely

Question 7

full prescribing authority

Answer 7

can prescribe any medications as long as they are acting within the scope of their practice

Question 8

who has full prescribing authority?

Answer 8

• physicians
• dentists
• podiatrists
• veterinarians

Question 9

limited prescribing authority

Answer 9

has restrictions/limitations on the medications they can prescribe

Question 10

who has limited prescribing authority?

Answer 10

• optometrists
• midlevel practitioners

Question 11

NPI Number

Answer 11

unique 10-digit number used to identify individual prescribers for insurance claim submission/billing purpose required by pharmacists since 2007

Question 12

UPIN

Answer 12

obsolete since the introduction of NPI Numbers in 2007 but functioned the same

Question 13

DEA Number

Answer 13

required for distributing controlled substances

Question 14

Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) of 1970

Answer 14

law requiring packaging of drug products to be child resistant to prevent serious injury or illness caused by mishandling medications