Disclosures
- My State requires consent to use or disclose health information. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule take away this protection?
- May a health plan disclose protected health information to a State child support enforcement (IV-D) agency in response to a National Medical Support Notice?
- When a covered entity, such as a doctor, uses a certified Telecommunications Relay Service to contact patients with hearing or speech impairments, is the Relay Service a business associate of the doctor?
- If I do not object, can my health care provider share or discuss my health information with my family, friends, or others involved in my care or payment for my care?
- Do I have to give my health care provider written permission to share or discuss my health information with my family members, friends, or others involved in my care or payment for my care?
- Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule require my doctor to send my medical records to the government?
- Won't the HIPAA Privacy Rule's minimum necessary standard impede the ability of workers' compensation insurers, State administrative agencies, and employers to obtain the health information needed to pay injured or ill workers the benefits guaranteed them under State workers' compensation system?
- I am a health care provider and my State law says I have to provide a workers' compensation insurer, upon request, with an injured workers' records that related to treatment or hospitalization for which compensation is being sought. Am I permitted to disclose the information required by my State law?
- Does HIPAA require that a health care provider document a patient’s decision to allow the provider to share his or her health information with a family member, friend, or other person involved in the patient’s care or payment for care?
- Must a covered health care provider obtain an individual’s authorization to use or disclose protected health information to an interpreter?
- Can a patient have a friend or family member pick up a prescription for her?
- May a doctor or hospital disclose protected health information to a person or entity that can assist in notifying a patient’s family member of the patient’s location and health condition?
- Can the fact that a patient has been "treated and released," or that a patient has died, be released as part of the facility directory?
- Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit hospitals and other health care facilities to inform visitors or callers about a patient’s location in the facility and general condition?
- If a patient’s family member, friend, or other person involved in the patient’s care or payment for care calls a health care provider to ask about the patient’s condition, does HIPAA require the health care provider to obtain proof of who the person is before speaking with them?
- May a health care provider share a patient’s health information with an interpreter to communicate with the patient or with the patient’s family, friends, or others involved in the patient’s care or payment for care?
- May a hospital or other covered entity notify a patient's family member or other person that the patient is at their facility?
- Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit a hospital to inform callers or visitors of a patient’s location and general condition in the emergency room, even if the patient’s information would not normally be included in the main hospital directory of admitted patients?
- Can my health care provider discuss my health information with an interpreter?
- May a health plan disclose protected health information to a person who calls the plan on the beneficiary’s behalf?