HIPAA Permission Form
HIPAA Permission Form: What You Must Get Right
The Form That Cost a Hospital $2.4 Million In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost a case before an administrative
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HIPAA Authorization
Authorization Required: Which HIPAA Uses Demand One?
The Question That Trips Up Even Experienced Compliance Officers Last year, I watched a compliance officer at a mid-size hospital freeze during an audit when
Bad Communication in Healthcare
Bad Communication in Healthcare: The HIPAA Cost
A Fax Meant for a Cardiologist Ended Up at a Car Dealership I got the call on a Tuesday. A hospital's intake coordinator
HIPAA Authorization Form
HIPAA Authorization Form Template: What You Need
That Form You Downloaded Might Cost You Six Figures Last year, I reviewed a HIPAA authorization form template for a mid-sized specialty clinic in Texas.
HIPAA Authorizations
HIPAA Authorizations: What Most Covered Entities Get Wrong
A hospital in Texas released ten years of a patient's psychiatric records to an employer — all because a front-desk employee accepted an authorization
HIPAA Release Form
HIPPA Release Form: What You Actually Need to Know
Every single week, someone walks into a clinic, a law office, or an HR department and asks for a "hippa release form." I&
Minimum Necessary Rule
When Does the Minimum Necessary Rule Not Apply?
A hospital compliance officer once told me she spent three months building an elaborate minimum necessary policy — role-based access matrices, tiered authorization levels, the works.
HIPAA Release of Information Form
HIPAA Release of Information Form: What You Must Get Right
A therapist's office in Connecticut faxed 47 pages of psychotherapy notes to an employer — all because someone handed them a generic HIPAA release
HIPAA Authorization
Authorization of Release of Health Information Guide
A Missing Signature Cost One Hospital $865,000 In 2019, a patient filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights after a hospital released
HIPAA Release Form NJ
HIPAA Release Form NJ: What You Actually Need
A Bergen County Clinic Got This Wrong — and It Cost Them Everything Last year, I consulted with a multi-provider practice in northern New Jersey that
HIPAA Patient Rights
Can a Doctor Access My Records Without Consent?
A woman in California walked into her new dermatologist's office and discovered something unsettling. Her previous provider — a physician she'd left
Emergency Management
Emergency Management in Hospital: HIPAA Rules Apply
When the Code Goes Hospital-Wide, HIPAA Doesn't Clock Out A category 4 hurricane is bearing down on the Gulf Coast. Your hospital'