HIPDB stands for what?

• A. Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
• B. Health Information and Protection Data Bureau
• C. Hospital Information and Program Data Bank
• D. Health Insurance Protection Data Board

Answer: (A)

HIPDB stands for Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank. The acronym matches the terms used for this federal data repository: Healthcare (H) Integrity (I) Protection (P) Data Bank (DB). The other options change key words (Information/Bureau/Board, Hospital/Program, Health Insurance) and thus don’t reflect the established name. This data bank was created to collect information about healthcare fraud, abuse, and disciplinary actions, and it was later integrated with the National Practitioner Data Bank to form a unified resource used in screening healthcare providers.