Workers' compensation: Understand rules for disclosures
Health Information Compliance Insider, June 1, 2008
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Although HIPAA does detail the handling of PHI that stems from workers’ compensation claims, there remains a good deal of confusion and uncertainty within the healthcare community about how to appropriately respond to requests for personal information.
According to HIPAA, which disclosures are permissible, which are mandatory, and which are prohibited?
HICI asked Jon A. Neiditz, an attorney at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, in Atlanta, to spell out the rules and illustrate how and when hospitals should release patient information.
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