tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 43

HIPAA: LAWYERS SEEK CLARITY ON HIPAA PRIVACY RULE

How far do your attorney's obligations go?Will the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule come back to haunt you if you get sued by a patient for something completely unrelated to medical records confidentiality? The answer right now is a little murky - and the American Health Lawyers Association wants the HHS Office for Civil Rights to clarify the matter. In an Oct. 28 letter to OCR Director Richard Campanelli, the AHLA's Health Information Technology practice group points out that HIPAA-covered entities "could be substantially disadvantaged in litigation by having to include disclosures made for legal...

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