WI hospitals: Know your state regulations
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, January 19, 2004
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WI hospitals: Know your state regulations
Providers, take heed: When it comes to federal and state privacy rules, even your state's attorney general may not know which is stricter. That was a theme of a January 9 letter from the HIPAA Collaborative of Wisconsin (HIPAA COW) to Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager. The group, which represents covered entities and their business associates, expressed concern that covered entities might interpret a recent memo from Lautenschlager as advising them to release more protected health information than Wisconsin law permits.
"Our primary concern with the memo is that providers will assume that if a particular disclosure to law enforcement is permissible under HIPAA, then it is also permissible under Wisconsin law," the letter said. "It is not always the case that permissible disclosures under HIPAA are permissible for Wisconsin providers."
Read HIPAA COW's letter here: http://www.wha.org/legalAndRegulatory/
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