Question

ABC is a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan sponsor. It would like to use its enrollees' protected health information (PHI) to market non-health related products such as life insurance and annuities. To do so it must obtain authorization from the enrollees. Which statement best describes the authorization process?

Answer 1

It must obtain a HIPAA compliant authorization from an enrollee that indicates the plan or plan sponsor may use their information for marketing purposes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Authorization may be obtained by directing a beneficiary to a website to provide consent.

Answer 2

The authorization process can be done best when the beneficiary directly connected to a website which gives all the information about the medical advantage of the sponsor.

Step-by-step explanation:

The website of the medical insurance company should provide all the consent knowledge to the patient or the beneficiary. It should be well defined so that it could clear all the doubts of the beneficiary. There should be proper registration page. Beneficiary should give all the information which are relevant to the company.

The registration page should ask for every information which could be needed in future for the claim. There should be a proper definition of coverage of diseases and accidents so that there should not be any kind of doubt to the beneficiary.