Patient Privacy Rights

HIPAA Authorization

What Is a HIPAA Authorization? A Practical Guide

The Form That Stops Lawsuits — or Starts Them A surgeon's office in Texas faxed a patient's psychiatric records to an employer.

HIPAA Forms

What Is a HIPAA Form? The Real Answer Beyond the Jargon

Last month, a medical office manager in Ohio called me in a panic. She'd just been told by a patient's attorney

Patient Privacy Rights

Patient Privacy Rights: What Your Practice Gets Wrong

A Mother Couldn't Get Her Own Son's Medical Records — Then the Feds Got Involved In 2019, a small medical practice in

HIPAA Authorization

HIPAA Authorization: What Counts, What Doesn't

A psychiatrist's office in Connecticut faxed 65 pages of therapy notes to a patient's employer. The patient had signed a form

HIPAA Privacy Rule

HIPAA Gives Privacy Protection For: Who Is Actually Covered

In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice in New England for $50,000 after a patient filed a complaint that the practice had disclosed

Patient Privacy Rights

Patient Privacy Rights: What Covered Entities Owe

In September 2023, OCR settled with a health plan for $40,000 after the organization failed to provide a patient with timely access to their