Clerical error results in confidentiality breach
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, May 14, 2007
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to HIPAA Weekly Advisor!
The California Department of Health Services inadvertently revealed the names and addresses of nearly 53 Californians enrolled in an AIDS drug assistance program to other enrollees, according to the Los Angeles Times.
A new clerk in the department thought the benefit notification letters were form letters and put them in the wrong envelopes. The department learned about the mistake after 12 people in the drug assistance program phoned to say they had received letters addressed to someone else. The department mailed certified letters to the 54 enrollees, explaining the mistake and asking that anyone who received a wrongly addressed letter destroy it.
Click here for more information.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to HIPAA Weekly Advisor!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Q/A. One injection code or two?
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Q&A tackles coding questions about injections and infusions
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Identify modifiable risk factors to prevent patient falls
- Searched