I believe the patient can REQUEST any information in the DRS be changed,
regardless of date. (You may be thinking of the accounting of disclosure,
which does have a pre 4/15/03 exception.)
However, you are NOT OBLIGATED to accept an amendment. If you cannot
corroborate it, I would deny it and th
of any providers using one for the exact scenario that you
gave. Patients can be very slick!
Judith
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From: Wellons, David L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:51 AM
To: 'Bentz-Miller, Judith'; WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
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patient seeks to "opt out" and
restrict communications about his/her PHI to anyone but for a specified list
of people and a provider agrees to that -- under those very limited
circumstances a debtor/patient may indeed have somewhat of an argument that
his HIPAA rights were violated when he
A few months ago, I had a patient send me a
certified letter that had much of this exact wording in it. I complied
with the timeframe of the 10 days, but refused his request, sitting the payment
language and the BA information. (He also stated that using a collection
agency could only be
We are a large multi-specialist clinic and we are in the process of doing a
risk assessment for requesting picture ID for each visit. Can you let me
know:
Do you currently request picture ID at check in?
Do you keep a copy of it, electronic or paper?
Why do you or do not request positive ID?
I
In
regs 164.520 it states "No later than the date of the first service delivery, including service
delivered electronically, to such
individual after the compliance date for
the covered health care
provider; So it is a combo of the
two of them. Receive NPP and sign acknowledgement no lat
Yes, that is the way we are interpreting the regs also (see the December
4th question about this if your manager does not believe it) Now if you
are tracking your NPP, if they have already received it, they do not need it
again.
This is a very wicket with us, and we are hoping that since
I respectfully disagree regarding the information being kept separate
regarding the INSURANCE CARDS. With different plans, different rules,
etc... this is a major player with the clinicians, especially nurses, who
are scheduling tests, precerts, etc... They have to know what kind of plan,
which ho
Title: RE: New to this list, have two questions.
This was part of our privacy audit due to the following
reg:
§
164.530 Administrative requirements.
(c) (1)
Standard: safeguards. A covered entity must have in place appropriate
administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to pro
Ken,
I think you need to analyze how the pharmacy is legally set up at your
hospital. We also have a pharmacy on-site, and while we treat it as any
other department internally, it legally is a separate company. We
documented an Affiliated Covered Entity (ACE) between the two and listed
this in ou
If it is from a health plan, there is no
signature acknowledgement requirement. The signature requirement is
for direct providers only. It sounds like that is the case, if you
received it from your employer.
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Lee, we place it inside of the
patient's medical records so when we see the patient again, we can hand it
to them and get a new address. Note that the unreturned mail is NOT
part of our Designated Record Set, since it is a duplicate of a part of the
DRS. (billing, lab result
How is everyone addressing this in their clinics/hospitals/offices? It
seems like a very easy task, but daunting at the same time. Thanks for the
input!
Judith Bentz-Miller
Privacy Officer
Arnett Clinic
765-448-8843
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I need some feedback regarding how others CEs are handling the following
scenario:
We are a clinic that has an HMO. Technically, it is a department of the
clinic, but we have separate ourselves into two different CEs. In the past,
we have allowed the HMO staff to have access to our database and
So each of you will have your own NPP, policies, etc... You will track all
separately?
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From: Shelly Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:24 PM
To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
Subject: RE: Tracking for Accounting of Disclosures
Our
We are
working on having an authorization that will cover these "gray areas". It
will follow the guidelines with HIPAA and allow us to share information with
anyone the patient wishes to be involved in their care. It will only be
valid for a year, and the patient will be able to revoke it
does anyone have any good HIPAA humor training tools
that they would be willing to share? I am doing a presentation later
today and I am looking for something different.
Email me directly if you wish. Thank you for
helping!
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We will be RECORDING it as a voice mail
message (our system handles over 12 minutes!) and having an extension, with
access on both the local line and 800 line. We are also
having a privacy (800 number) hotline set up and both numbers will be listed on
business cards. Business cards will
I strongly agree also. If there is no BAA in place, or not a well written
one in place, it is the CE who will be audited and suffer the consequences
under HIPAA and the OCR. we will also suffer the consequences in the press
if one of our vendors has a huge faux-pas with PHI that the CE has give
This is a huge issue in my area, because we actually have a "hotline" set up
in the county and I don't think we can keep it around. I am lucky enough to
be invited to a meeting with a state police detectives, physicians, and
pharmacists next week regarding HIPAA and I am sure it will come up. I
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