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-Original Message-
From: Steven Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:47 AM
To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
Subject: RE: is this practice O.K.?
Dr. Fairley's original post asked
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:12 PM
To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
Subject: RE: is this practice O.K.?
Dear Dr. Fairley,
What a great question! We believe that HIPAA allows this practice and in
doing so, provides patient with privacy protections.
For nearly 2000 years physicians, nurses
: is this practice O.K.?
John,
We believe that HHS is clear in the use of the term third party in its
definition of treatment. The following guidance is provided in the
Preamble to the (initial) Privacy rules:
The proposed rule defined 'treatment' as the provision of health care by,
or the coordination
Rosenblum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 6:39 PM
To: Cody, John (OFT); 'WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List'
Subject: RE: is this practice O.K.?
John,
You are quite right that the proposed rule was modified, and that is why we
included BOTH versions in our second response
, November 02, 2003 6:44 PM
To: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List
Subject: RE: is this practice O.K.?
Clarified it? They removed the limiting language -- they EXPANDED it,
didn't they? :-)
Thanks for your thoughts, Matt, much appreciated. What do others think?
Thanks, John
John C. Cody, Esq.
NYS
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-Original Message-
From: Matthew Rosenblum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 7:02 PM
To: Cody, John (OFT); 'WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup List'
Subject: RE: is this practice O.K.?
John,
HHS made the modification
Sounds like some undue stress on a question that probably cannot be answered out of court. The regulatory language provides for no end of possible interpretations and we can only guess at what the courts will decide -- and they get the advantage of a specific set of circumstances (and, I think
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 4:55
PMTo: WEDI SNIP Privacy Workgroup ListSubject: Re: is
this practice O.K.?Sounds like some undue str
The practice that I am going to describe is quite common in our community but I am not
sure it is acceptable. I wanted the opinion of the experts on this list.
Occassionally, we run into a problem with a patient who seems to be doctor hopping and
getting multiple prescriptions for narcotics.
