Hipaa Billing Codes
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I have a question: I have a HIPAA Violation Termination on my personnel file. Have I thrown away my career?
I worked for a hospital doing ER charging and coding, my 15 month old grand daughter was admitted to the hospital in Feb. and diagnosed with asthma. In July she started with another attack, my daughter was hysterical when she called my office as she was driving to the baby’s doctor and asked me to look up the baby’s ER record and tell er the name of the medication they gave the baby in Feb. so she could make sure she was given the same medication because it worked immeditaly. I was terminated for this being a HIPAA violation and not following proper chain of command. Have I destroyed my medical billing career for this mistake in judgement?
You won’t know until you try to get another job.
Since there is a big demand for medical billers, I suspect you won’t have much of a problem, and when they contact your hospital, the only thing the hospital will say is that you are ineligible for re-hire. They won’t tell the reason.
When you apply, don’t put it on the paperwork, but in the interview, you might mention the circumstances and say you’ve learned your lesson–the hard way. And if you go with a private company, you may never have access to the kind of info that you had at the hospital.
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