AI for Private Practice Therapist Admin Quiz

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1. A therapist wants to use a vendor that will store and transcribe recorded client sessions. Under HIPAA, what must be in place first?
   • A signed business associate agreement with the vendor
   • A Good Faith Estimate for each recorded client
   • A state license for the vendor's engineers
   • A written promise that the vendor uses open-source models
2. Why is deleting a client's name before pasting session details into a chatbot not enough to protect privacy?
   • Chatbots can always recover deleted names from context
   • HIPAA's Safe Harbor method covers 18 identifier types, and dates, places or rare events can still identify someone
   • HIPAA only protects names, so the rest of the text is already public
   • Chatbots are legally required to report any mental health content
3. An AI claim scrubber approves a claim that turns out to be upcoded. Who is accountable for the claim's accuracy?
   • The clearinghouse that forwarded the claim
   • The AI vendor, because its tool approved it
   • The clinician or practice that submitted it
   • The payer, because it failed to catch the error
4. In what form do ambient note tools for therapists usually deliver their output?
   • A raw audio file with timestamps only
   • An insurance remittance advice
   • A summary written into a template such as SOAP, DAP or BIRP
   • A diagnosis chosen automatically from the DSM
5. Which standard electronic transaction pair lets a practice check a client's insurance eligibility before a session?
   • 837P and 835
   • 270 and 271
   • 90837 and 90834
   • BAA and GFE
6. For which clients must a US private practice provide a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges?
   • Self-pay and uninsured clients
   • Clients referred by a physician
   • Clients whose sessions are recorded
   • Clients using telehealth only
7. Which use of a general consumer chatbot does the guide treat as the lowest risk for a therapist?
   • Summarizing a client's intake history
   • Drafting marketing copy that contains no client information
   • Writing progress notes from memory after a session
   • Choosing CPT codes for last week's sessions
8. When reviewing an ambient note vendor's settings, which question matters most for privacy?
   • Whether the vendor offers dark mode
   • How many note templates are included
   • Whether audio and transcripts are deleted after the note is made, and whether client data trains the vendor's models
   • Whether the vendor supports more than one telehealth platform