Hipaa Phone Records
hipaa phone records
What is HIPAA?
One of the acronyms that has been bandied around since the health insurance regulation has passed is HIPAA. HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, an act that protects the privacy of health insurance consumers in a digital age and allows them some guarantee of insurance renewability if they are unable to replace their group insurance plan. HIPAA-Protecting Your Privacy The HIPAA act sets out certain administrative procedures that prevent unauthorized individuals and companies from getting their hands on your private health information. Under the act your health information becomes Private Health Information and allows you to choose how you can be contacted by an insurer or health agency, requires certain permissions to be granted and documents to be signed before records can be released and imposes a penalty on those who reveal or disclose your health information over the phone to unauthorized individuals. Unfortunately, HIPAA regulations can make some things difficult in its intention of protecting your privacy. Your family might not be able to get medical information about your medical state when you are hospitalized and your insurance agent might not be given a reason why your insurance policy application was declined. HIPAA does not, however, affect your ability to apply got health insurance online. Portability and Renewability Re-existing conditions can be a big determinant in what type of insurance policy you can get. HIPAA prevents insurers from permanently excluding conditions that you have. In addition, it guarantees that you can get a health insurance policy after your COBRA benefits expire IF you are unable to get health insurance independently or through another group. In order to utilize HIPAA portability and renewability benefits you must have carried creditable insurance coverage for a certain period of time (usually 6 months, but can vary by state). Creditable coverage doesn’t have a very good definition on any HIPAA website resources, but it is likely that it means a fully underwritten or group health insurance policy, which means that limited benefit coverages or major medical policies will likely not qualify as creditable coverage. So remember when you get your health insurance online quote – HIPAA is there to protect you in many ways, even when you get your quotes online.
hipaa psychotherapy video recording?
My old therapist (whom I greatly miss, but can no longer see) used to let me record my therapy sessions with my phone, which I found very helpful, but, my new therapist says I can’t record (even though he does; because he’s an intern) because he says it would be a hipaa violation :/. He also seemed very concerned about the negative effects I could experience from watching myself (even though I’ve told him I’ve done it before). My concern is that he’s lying to me and abusing the hipaa as his wand of authority. It doesn’t make sense to me, I though the hipaa was supposed to ensure HE would keep the things we discuss private, why does it apply to me? I also asked him if paperwork could be made up stating that I’m ok with recording myself (lol) and he said no… I think I should have the right to record myself in therapy if I want to. If anybody knows anything about this, I would love to hear from you.
Sorry for the mistakes, I did this on my phone.
Thank you
No, there is absolutely no HIPAA violation if you want to record yourself. HIPAA has to do with the provider’s obligation to keep your health information private. It does not say anything about what you can do with your own health information if you so choose.
I don’t think he’s lying to you. A lot of people, including a lot of very smart people, are ignorant when it comes to what HIPAA actually says. It’s a ridiculously long law so most people have never actually read it. They rely instead on what other people tell them HIPAA says, and I imagine this intern believes that somebody told him HIPAA would not allow this. The law doesn’t address this though, but he might not want you to record for his own reasons. If he doesn’t let you record and you feel it is helpful to you, I suggest you find another doctor.
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