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A health care provider with a direct treatment relationship must give the Notice of Privacy Practices no later than the date of the first service delivery, and must post it in the office and on any website it keeps. A makes the notice optional. C and D tie the notice to billing events rather than to the start of care.

Source: HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 CFR 164.520(c)(2)

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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act mainly governs third-party debt collectors, such as collection agencies, not creditors collecting their own debts under their own name. A practice that hires an agency should make sure the agency complies. A overstates the law's scope. B invents a payer limit. D is wrong, since other federal and state rules still apply.

Source: 15 U.S.C. 1692a(6) (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)

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A Part A benefit period begins on the day of an inpatient admission and ends when the patient has not received inpatient hospital or skilled nursing facility care for 60 days in a row. A new deductible applies to each benefit period. A confuses it with a calendar-year deductible. B uses the wrong number of days. C ends it too early.

Source: 42 CFR 409.60; CMS Medicare & You handbook