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Subject: RE: Psychotherapy Notes
Cheri, Bob, et al:
Among most behavioral health professionals process
notes (referred to by HIPAA as psychotherapy notes) are those
pieces of documentation that therapists write
Based on
an informal poll it appears most psych professionals do not create or maintain
the sorts of notes that are defined by HIPAA as psychotherapy notes.
The HIPAA
exception evidently arose out of requests for special protection by those few
professionals who do create such notes.
Not
